Podcasts about collective trauma

Sara Connell is a 5-time bestselling author and the founder of Thought Leader Academy, helping coaches, experts and entrepreneurs scale impact and create 6-7 figure income by becoming bestselling authors and in-demand/TEDx speakers. Seventeen years ago, writing a book about her recovery from sexual assault and addiction saved Sara's life, inspiring her to pay that gift forward by writing her own books and helping leaders on a mission reach the people they are here to serve. Sara has been featured on/in Oprah, The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and TEDx. Her books have been nominated for a National Book Award and Elle Magazine Book of the Year. Sara Connell is a 5x Bestselling author and the founder of Thought Leader Academy where she helps coaches, experts and entrepreneurs scale impact + create 6-7 figures by becoming bestselling authors and in demand/TEDx speakers. She has been featured on/in Oprah, The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, Forbes, Entrepreneur and TEDx. Her books have been nominated for a National Book Award and Elle Magazine book of the year.

I was so excited to have my friend Neil Gaur return to Soul Elevation. Neil is a wealth of knowledge on spirituality, ascension, hidden histories, galactic insights, and basically everything mysterious. He is so fun to engage with, and I always learn new things when I'm listening to him. Neil Gaur is the founder of Portal to Ascension. In this discussion, we focus on the importance of shadow work, discuss various star races like Lyrans and Sirians, and explore the roles of snakes and dragons in humanity's history of ascension and descension. Neil also shares insights from his many lives in Orion and explains how these experiences relate to his current work.  This episode promises to stretch your understanding with discussions on ancient civilizations, hidden truths, and the intricate balance of light and shadow within and around us. Resources: Portal to Ascension: http://portaltoascension.org Shadow Worker's Course: https://portaltoascension.org/the-shadow-workers-course/ Get my book: https://www.karagoodwin.com/book Timestamp: 00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview 00:49 Meet Neil Gaur: Founder of Portal to Ascension 01:27 Kara's Book: Your Authentic Awakening 02:27 Neil's Journey: From Hinduism to Spiritual Awakening 05:31 Discovering Ancient Texts and Hidden Histories 08:34 The Role of Love and Spiritual Connection 21:15 The Cosmic Play: Duality, Free Will, and Creation 35:26 Reptilian Influence and Collective Trauma 36:31 Orion and the Stargate Connection 39:59 The Orion Wars and Reptilian Manipulation 47:42 Dragons: The Ancestors of Reptilians 54:16 The Year of the Dragon and Shadow Work 01:01:10 Upcoming Events and Final Thoughts

IT'S GODZILLLLLAAAAA!!!! We are finally facing the notorious giant with Godzilla Minus One. This has been a highly requested movie since it came out in 2023. Join us as we break down the concept of moral injury seen in the main character, as well as the collective trauma experienced by the Japanese people after WWII. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/popcorn-psychology--3252280/support.

Why is it so hard to feel safe even when you're no longer in danger? In this episode of Moonbeaming, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener speaks with somatic healer Ifé Mora about the Nine of Wands archetype and what it means to live in a body that's been shaped by stress, trauma, and survival. They explore:The biology of burnoutThe impact of chronic stress on the nevous systemHow to heal through presence, education, and somatic practiceAnd powerful tools for regulating the nervous system.This is an episode for anyone feeling worn out, stuck in survival mode, or ready to rebuild.More on our guest:Ifé Mora is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Spiritual Buddhist teacher, and trauma-informed educator, as well as the founder of One Soma LLC, a healing organization focused on trauma education and social justice. She specializes in helping individuals resolve trauma, regulate their nervous systems, and build resilience through embodied, mind-body-spirit practices. Her work draws on Somatic Experiencing and neurobiological tools to foster deep healing and holistic well-being. Rooted in spiritual traditions, Ifé integrates personal development with trauma healing to support lasting transformation. She believes that trauma-informed education can help create a more just and compassionate society. Her mission is to help people reconnect with their authentic selves and unlock the body's natural ability to heal.Connect with Ifé:WebsiteInstagram--- Moon Studio workshop reminder:June 29th: The Constellation of the 9's: The Hermit, The Moon, & the 9's---Join the Moon Studio community:Join the Moon Studio Patreon.Buy the 2025 Many Moons Lunar Planner.Subscribe to our newsletter.Find Sarah on Instagram.

How a Doctor's Long COVID Journey Exposed Systemic FailuresMillions are still living with long COVID, yet many patients are dismissed, misunderstood, or left without answers. In this episode, Dr. Zeest Khan shares her personal journey—from treating critical patients as a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist to becoming a long COVID patient herself.This conversation isn't just about COVID—it's about how we listen, how we heal, and what needs to change.Guest: Dr. Zeest Khan, physician, long COVID advocate, and host of Long COVID MD podcast.Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, DavidSupport the showShow Notes:https://outrageoverload.net/ Follow me, David Beckemeyer, on Twitter @mrblog or email outrageoverload@gmail.com. Follow the show on Twitter @OutrageOverload or Instagram @OutrageOverload. We are also on Facebook /OutrageOverload.HOTLINE: 925-552-7885Got a Question, comment or just thoughts you'd like to share? Call the OO hotline and leave a message and you could be featured in an upcoming episodeIf you would like to help the show, you can contribute here. Tell everyone you know about the show. That's the best way to support it.Rate and Review the show on Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/OutrageOverload Intro music and outro music by Michael Ramir C.Many thanks to my co-editor and co-director, Austin Chen.

How does sensing into our zones of stretch, comfort, and panic help us to expand our capacities for love and nonviolence — in their more radical iterations? Where might accountability come from in a world that seems to reward behaviors that are extractive, exploitative, and narcissistic?Our latest conversation features Kazu Haga, the author of Fierce Vulnerability, who invites us to shift the ways that we understand “power” and to center relational healing when addressing injustice.What does it mean for us to step into the role of becoming healers of collective trauma?We invite you to…tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app;subscribe to kaméa's newsletters here;and support our show through a one-time donation or through joining our paid subscriptions on Patreon or Substack.

We often think of healing as an individual journey—going inward to process unresolved trauma, grief, and pain from our past. But what about collective trauma, grief, and pain? We rarely consider the healing that must take place beyond ourselves, addressing the unprocessed wounds we carry as a community. True healing requires creating safety both within and around us, allowing us to move beyond our personal experiences and contribute to something greater than our own individual worlds. On today's episode, we're joined by embodiment facilitator, political organizer, therapist, and podcast host, Prentis Hemphill. As the founder of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and host of Becoming The People, Prentis brings deep wisdom and presence to the conversation. They sit down with Elisabeth and Jennifer for a powerful discussion on healing in community, the role of embodiment in collective transformation, and the challenges of accountability. Prentis also shares invaluable insights on navigating fear, processing collective grief, and staying grounded in truth—especially when sharing your gifts with the world on a larger scale. On Trauma Rewired, often discuss how embodiment and healing requires repetition, practice, and safe spaces. It also takes courage—especially when facilitating collective healing. Prentis embodies this work in a profound way, so don't miss today's episode to hear their insights and much more! Topics discussed in this episode: ● How embodiment unfolds uniquely for each individual ● The healing journey as a shared, communal experience ● Barriers to accountability and how to navigate them ● The nervous system's role in shaping our ability to relate, reflect, and grow ● How Prentis balances visibility with safety and grounding ● The many forms of fear, both individually and collectively ● The impact of being denied the space to grieve ● The dual responsibility—and gift—of inner and collective healing ● Extending grace to others on their healing journeys ● The power of presence and why it matters now more than ever To learn more about The Embodiment Institute check on their website here: https://www.theembodimentinstitute.org/ To learn more about Prentis Hemphill, head to their Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill/?hl=en   Learn more about the Neuro-Somatic Intelligence Coaching program and sign up for the fall cohort now! https://www.neurosomaticintelligence.com Get started training your nervous system with our FREE 2-week offer on the Brain Based Membership site: https://www.rewiretrial.com Find Trauma Reiwred on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@TraumaRewired   Connect with us on social media: @trauma.rewired Join the Trauma Rewired Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/761101225132846 FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: https://www.drinkag1.com/rewired This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com Trauma Rewired podcast is intended to educate and inform but does not constitute medical, psychological or other professional advice or services. Always consult a qualified medical professional about your specific circumstances before making any decisions based on what you hear. We share our experiences, explore trauma, physical reactions, mental health and disease. If you become distressed by our content, please stop listening and seek professional support when needed. Do not continue to listen if the conversations are having a negative impact on your health and well-being. If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health, or in mental health crisis and you are in the United States you can 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. If someone's life is in danger, immediately call 911. We do our best to stay current in research, but older episodes are always available. We don't warrant or guarantee that this podcast contains complete, accurate or up-to-date information. 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Jungian Psychoanalysts Laura Tuley and John White discuss Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma, a volume of essays, all authored by practicing Jungian psychoanalysts, of which they were the editors. It examines and illuminates ways of working with individual analytic and therapeutic clients in the context of powerful and current collective forces, in the United States and beyond. Our Spring Fundraising Drive is live! Support this podcast by making a donation today. The first $7,000 in donations will be matched! Laura Camille Tuley, PhD (USA) is a Jungian Psychoanalyst in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the co-editor of Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma (Routledge, 2024) and has contributed to Psychological Perspectives, Exploring Depth Psychology and the Female Self: Feminist Themes from Somewhere, Mothering in the Third Wave, Art Papers, Hypatia, the New Orleans Review and the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. Tuley is a faculty member of the New Orleans Jung Seminar of the IRSJA and the co-editor of the “Clinical Commentaries” and “Film and Culture” features of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. John R. White, PhD's training was in philosophy and he was a philosophy professor for twenty years. As he moved into midlife, he began training as a psychotherapist. He has a Masters in mental health counseling from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also a psychoanalyst in the tradition of Carl Jung. He is a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) and an associate member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). He practices psychotherapy according to psychodynamic, classical Jungian and archetypal approaches and more broadly in all approaches associated with “depth psychology”. Learn more at johnrwhitepgh.org. Edited by Laura Camille Tuley and John R. White: Patricia Martin, MFA, is the host of Jung in the World. A noted cultural analyst, she applies Jungian theory to her work as a researcher and writer. Author of three books, her work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, and USA Today. She holds an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College and an MA in cultural studies at the University College, Dublin (honors). In 2018, she completed the Jungian Studies Program at the C. G. Jung Institute Chicago where she is a professional affiliate. A scholar in residence at the Chicago Public Library, for the last decade she's been studying the digital culture and its impact on the individuation process. Patricia travels the world giving talks and workshops based on her findings, and has a private consulting practice in Chicago. Be informed of new programs and content by joining our mailing list! Support this free podcast by making a donation, becoming a member of the Institute, or making a purchase in our online store! Your support enables us to provide free and low-cost educational resources to all. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You may share it, but please do not change it, sell it, or transcribe it.Executive Producer: Ben LawHosts: Patricia Martin, Judith Cooper, Daniel Ross, Adina Davidson, and Raisa Cabrera2024-2025 Season Intern: Kavya KrishnamurthyMusic: Peter Demuth

In this episode, Guy spoke with Jude Currivan and discussed the transformation from an old worldview of separation to a new understanding of unity and conscious evolution. She emphasized the importance of recognizing our inseparable connection with the universe, which she described as living, loving, and purposeful. The conversation delved into the implications of this paradigm shift on personal and collective consciousness, touching on subjects like quantum physics, the nature of reality, and the evolving understanding of entropy. Currivan also shared insights from her own life's journey and the profound experiences that have shaped her path. The episode invites listeners to embrace a new perspective and to join in the global awakening towards realizing our true nature and purpose. About Jude: Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, author, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and previously one of the most senior international business women in the UK. She has a Master's degree in physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology and a Ph.D. from the University of Reading, UK in archaeology researching ancient cosmologies.  She has travelled to over 80 countries, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the international author of 7 nonfiction books, latterly and both award-winning and best-selling The Cosmic Hologram (2017) and The Story of Gaia (2022). In 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld-View to serve the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unitive awareness and conscious evolution. She is also a faculty member of Ubiquity University and Humanity's Team. Key Points Discussed:  (00:00) - Physicist's Urgent Message: A Conscious Universe Is Trying to Wake You Up (00:37) - Republishing the Episode: A Message from the Host (01:20) - Welcoming Jude: A Journey of Curiosity (04:00) - Early Experiences: A Lifelong Journey Begins (09:13) - Science and Spirituality: Bridging the Gap (20:54) - The Universe's Evolutionary Purpose (23:55) - Human Experience: Remembering Who We Are (28:22) - Raising Vibrational Awareness (29:23) - The Axial Age and Evolution of Ideas (30:55) - Separation and Collective Trauma (31:51) - The Flip in Evolutionary Terms (36:22) - Understanding Entropy and Information (45:53) - Realistic Optimism for the Future (48:24) - Personal Transformation and Radical Trust (50:06) - Final Thoughts and Resources How to Contact Jude Currivan:www.judecurrivan.comwww.wholeworld-view.org About me:My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en Guy's websites:www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co''

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Join us for part two of my conversation with Jenna McCarthy, author of, Yankee Doodle Soup for the Fringy, Tin-Foil Hat Wearing, Conspiracy Theorist's Soul and The War on Ivermectin with Dr. Pierre Kory.We process our parallel journies as COVID dissidents —including the lingering trauma so many of us continue to experience (well, maybe me more than Jenna!)Full disclosure—this episode was a bit of a therapy session for me ☺️. Jenna shared her unrelenting optimism despite all she endured thanks to her COVID dissident stance. Yes, she lost Hollywood contacts and movie deals. Yes, her friendships remain strained. Yes, her family initially resisted her anti-jab position. But she persevered and now Jenna's is THANKFUL for the COVID trials. She believes her response to the pandemic allowed her to find her life's purpose and mission.Join us to be blessed by Jenna's uplifting energy and spirit!Sponsor:The Wellness CompanyWebsite: ⁠https://www.twc.health/lovelife⁠Code: LOVELIFE for 15% off your order!Jenna McCarthyWebsite: https://jennamccarthy.com/Substack: https://jennasside.rocks/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennamccarthyisback/ X: https://x.com/jennawrites Jenna's Book - Yankee Doodle Soup: https://yankeedoodlesoup.com/Dr. Karin & Pastor Elliott AndersonWebsite: http://loveandlifemedia.com/Empowered Dating Playbook: smarturl.it/EmpoweredDatingBookInstagram: @dr.karin | @pastorelliottanderson

Elliott and I have been doing a series on trauma—which got me thinking about the thing I'm pretty much always thinking about—COVID.Talk about a traumatizing event!Since we all—as in, the entire world—endured the pandemic, it certainly qualifies as what psychologists call a “collective trauma.”Because we went through it together, right? Well no, we didn't. The “collective trauma” wasn't a unifying experience. Some complied with the proclamations from “experts” on high. Others resisted the authoritarianism.The COVID event fractured society and pitted us against each other. Friendships broke down. Family members viewed each other with suspicion and disdain. We should have rallied together, yet we remained—and remain—polarized. How do we heal from “collective trauma” that has so splintered and divided?I'm still trying to figure it all out.To this end, we're launching a series on COVID trauma.I'm thrilled to introduce our first COVID trauma guest, Jenna McCarthy. She's the author of Yankee Doodle Soup for the Fringy, Tin Foil Hat-Wearing Conspiracy Theorist's Soul and The War on Ivermectin:  The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic with Dr. Pierre Kory. Jenna shares her COVID journey—and yes, her career tanked and friends turned against her. Oh, and that screenplay she wrote—the one Hollywood producers were so excited about? It got tossed once she publicly challenged “the official” COVID narrative.If, like me, you're not over COVID—or, even if you are—this episode is for you! Dissidents will feel heard and validated. Those who went along with the program will gain a greater understanding as to why some of your friends and loved ones didn't.Sponsor:The Wellness CompanyWebsite: ⁠https://www.twc.health/lovelife⁠Code: LOVELIFE for 15% off your order!Jenna McCarthyWebsite: https://jennamccarthy.com/Substack: https://jennasside.rocks/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennamccarthyisback/ X: https://x.com/jennawrites Jenna's Book - Yankee Doodle Soup: https://yankeedoodlesoup.com/Dr. Karin & Pastor Elliott AndersonWebsite: http://loveandlifemedia.com/Substack: https://loveandlifemedia.substack.com/Empowered Dating Playbook: smarturl.it/EmpoweredDatingBookInstagram: @dr.karin | @pastorelliottanderson

From a recent SAND Community Gathering (March 2025) Join mental health clinician Linda Thai and writer Jungwon Kim for an in-depth conversation on intergenerational trauma, historical grief, and healing in community. Together, they explored psychological, spiritual, and communal reverberations of historical violence, framed within the context of U.S. wars in Korea and Vietnam, yet deeply relevant to other conflicts, past and present. They shared their experiences and observations of the complex dynamics of remembering and forgetting—and how they play out across families and communities fragmented by political and militarized violence. Further, they explore modes of restoration that are often overlooked by Western therapeutic approaches: somatic and communal transmutation, cultural ritual, and narrative justice. The pathways they shared honor the deep connections between personal, historical, and communal dimensions of trauma. A vital conversation for anyone seeking to understand how the profound wisdom held within cultural memory can contribute to intergenerational healing. Jungwon Kim is an award-winning writer and cultural worker. She is also a communications leader, organizational strategy consultant, and journalist who has dedicated her professional life to human rights and environmental advocacy. As Head of Creative & Editorial at the Rainforest Alliance, she directed a multimedia team of writers, videographers, and graphic designers. Earlier in her career, she served as the editor of Amnesty International USA's human rights quarterly that featured the work of award-winning journalists and documentary photographers (circulation 300,000). She began her storytelling career as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and on-air correspondent for nationally syndicated public radio programs. Linda Thai, LMSW ERYT-200 is a trauma therapist and educator who specializes in brain and body-based modalities for addressing complex developmental trauma. Linda has worked with thousands of people from all over the world to promote mindfulness, recover from trauma, and tend to grief as a means of self care. Linda's work centers on healing with a special focus on the experiences of adult children of refugees and immigrants. Her teaching is infused with empathy, storytelling, humor, research, practical tools, applied knowledge, and experiential wisdom. She has assisted internationally renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, with his private small group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma. She has a Master of Social Work with an emphasis on the neurobiology of attachment and trauma. Topics 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:38 Setting the Context: War and Generational Trauma 01:18 Introducing the Guests: Linda Thai and Jungwon Kim 02:17 Linda Thai's Story: A Journey of Healing 06:48 Jungwon Kim's Story: Bridging Generations 11:12 The Impact of War on Generations 13:08 Collective Trauma and Healing 29:39 Ritualizing Healing: The Concept of Han 34:41 The Role of Community in Healing 49:03 Conclusion and Future Conversations Resources Minds Under Seige (A SAND talk with Dr. Gabor Maté and Naomi Klein, facilitated by Cecilie Surasky). Podcast of this conversation. “Violent experiences alter the genome in ways that persist for generations” (Yale News) Han (Korean: 한), or haan, is a concept of an emotion, variously described as some form of grief or resentment, among others, that is said to be an essential element of Korean identity by some, and a modern post-colonial identity by others. – Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member

How does unprocessed trauma shape our economy, leadership, and collective decision-making? In this episode of Next Economy Now, Thomas Hübl, PhD, explores the deep connection between trauma and our broader societal and economic systems.For full show notes, visit: https://lifteconomy.com/blog/thomas-hubl/Send us a textA new cohort of the Next Economy MBA begins March 25th – join us! This nine-month learning journey is designed to provide emerging leaders of the Next Economy with the skills they need to help their organizations thrive.Learn more and sign up for a free intro with one of our facilitators: https://www.lifteconomy.com/mba.Special Offer for NEN Listeners: Use code PODCASTMBA to save 10% on tuition.Support the show

In this conversation, Keresse and Katie Bogen delve into the complexities of collective trauma, sexual trauma, and the healing process. They explore Katie's personal journey from trauma to sexual liberation, the importance of parental support for queer youth, and the societal norms that contribute to collective trauma. The discussion emphasizes the need for empathy and understanding in parenting, the role of gender in trauma experiences, and the power of joy and pleasure as forms of resistance against societal oppression. They also address the phenomenon of disassociation in trauma survivors and the various triggers that can arise in sexual contexts. In this conversation, Katie Bogen discusses the complexities of navigating sexual experiences, particularly for those with a history of trauma. She emphasizes the importance of practicing presence during intimacy, overcoming sexual shame, and establishing healthy boundaries. The dialogue also touches on the societal pressures women face regarding their sexuality and the need for open conversations about sexual agency. Bogen encourages individuals to embrace their sexual curiosity and advocate for their pleasure, while also addressing the impact of restrictive societal norms on sexual behavior.How to contact Katie:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/k.w.bogen/?hl=enhttps://linktr.ee/KwbogenChapters00:00Introduction to Collective Trauma and Healing03:03Katie's Journey: From Trauma to Sexual Liberation06:06The Impact of Parental Support on Queer Youth08:58Navigating Queerness: A Personal Narrative11:53Empathy and Understanding in Parenting15:01Collective Trauma and Societal Norms18:12The Role of Gender in Trauma Experiences20:51Reclaiming Joy and Pleasure as Resistance24:05Disassociation and Sexual Trauma27:13Understanding Triggers and Responses to Trauma30:32Navigating Sexual Triggers and Dissociation33:09Practicing Presence in Sexual Experiences36:40Understanding and Overcoming Sexual Shame43:22Establishing Healthy Sexual Boundaries52:50Reclaiming Sexual Agency in a Restrictive Society01:00:03Empowering the Younger Self Through CuriosityAbout the Host:Keresse Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, intuitive empath, and professional Tarot reader. Through the Diary of an Empath podcast, she explores topics like mental health, spirituality, and personal development, aiming to guide listeners on their healing and growth journeys. Stay Connected: • Website: therapeutichealingbyreese.com • Instagram: @keresse • Facebook: Therapeutic Healing by Reese • TikTok: @DiaryofanEmpathPodcastIf you like this podcast please leave me a review and rate!For more info on my services such as Tarot readings please visit my website at www.therapeutichealingbyreese.com

In the wake of the election, many of us are reckoning with our collective trauma.The United States has a brutal trauma history etched into our collective unconscious. From centuries of genocide inflicted upon indigenous peoples of this land, to the immigration and assimilation of war-ravaged refugees hoping for a better life, to importing enslaved people from Africa and beyond… And yet, we live in a culture of erasure and assimilation, where all of that collective trauma has been hidden under the veneer of manifest destiny, the “land of opportunity” and the greatness of democracy.In light of the pain, division and political upheaval in our country, the cries for collective healing are getting too loud to ignore.If we hope to heal individually and heal as a society, we must address our ancestral and lineage trauma. We must dismantle the systems of oppression built from that trauma identity. We must support the evolution of our consciousness in connection, empathy and restitution.Join Michelle and Katherine for a powerful election response episode where they discuss systems of collective trauma and global healing. They talk about activating our inner warrior consciousness, and offer a prayer to invoke spirit guides for collective healing.Election response episodeCollective traumaAncestral and lineage traumaSystems of oppressionImmigrationHow to heal societyActivating inner warriorInvoke warrior guidesHealingConsciousnessCollective healingGlobal healingEvolution

Welcome to Season 3 of the Resilient Birth podcast. In this episode, Sarah shares her personal reaction to the current political climate in which women's voices seem increasingly devalued and men who have been accused of sexual misconduct are allowed into the heart of government. This is a raw and vulnerable sharing in which a sense of loss and helplessness is held alongside the hope that listeners, who perhaps also feel that their body will not forget this, will feel less alone. Justine and Sarah reflect on the emotional weight of motherhood and trauma in the current political climate, particularly regarding women's rights, voices, and the implications for future generations. Through personal anecdotes and a discussion of a quote from an op-ed by Damielle Campoarmor, https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pete-hegseth-confirmed-defense-secretary-assault-allegations-rcna189168, they emphasize the importance of speaking up even when it feels scary and the ongoing importance of your voice and the story your have to tell. On the Resilient Birth podcast, Justine and Sarah explore the impact of trauma across the perinatal period, from trying-to-conceive to pregnancy, from childbirth to postpartum and parenting. Through an inspirational quote that drives our weekly conversations about trauma and healing, Justine and Sarah explore topics such as birth trauma, parenting as a survivor, and finding healing with vulnerability and compassion that support birthing people and birth professionals. Each week, listeners leave with takeaways to utilize in their lives and/or clients. Justine and Sarah hold the stories they share with honor and respect with the hope to impart knowledge, increase understanding, and bear witness to this challenging topic. Sarah is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, and mom of three. She walks with a story of trauma from before and as a result of her perinatal experience. Justine supports survivors of trauma through perinatal coaching and childbirth education. As well as being a mother of three, she holds a Ph.D. on representations of consent and sexual violence and is currently doing a Masters in Counselling. Learn more about Sarah and Justine's course called Trauma Informed Fundamentals here: https://resilient-birth.mykajabi.com/traumainformedfundamentals Keywords: politics, motherhood, trauma, women's rights, cultural backlash, future generations, collective grief, speaking up, freedom of speech, accusations of sexual misconduct, confirmation hearings. Takeaways: Cultural backlash against women's rights is palpable. The future for children feels uncertain amidst political turmoil. Speaking out is scary and important. The importance of community and shared experiences. Voices of women must be amplified in political discourse. The journey of motherhood is political. Sound Bites "My body will not forget this." "I can feel the intensity of your rawness." "Where do we go from here?" "We can only turn a blind eye for so long." "Freedom of speech feels scary to speak." "How do you rise up in the darkness?" Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Season Three 00:24 Reflections on Political Climate and Motherhood 04:06 The Impact of Trauma on Women 10:27 Cultural Backlash and Women's Voices 12:11 Imagining the Future for Our Children 17:11 Collective Trauma and Personal Grief 24:25 Finding Hope Amidst Darkness 27:25 The Importance of Speaking Up Even When it is Scary 33:25 Concluding Thoughts on Collective Voices

I discuss the upcoming major astrological shifts for Sagittarius and Sagittarius Rising in 2025. I include a timeline of ingresses with dates and describe the related astrology and how it will generally affect Sagittarians. This episode was published on February 9, 2025 at 11:11am EDT.Please also see:Why it's been so hard for Sagittarius: 2008-2026 - Oct 15, 2024Whoa! Sagittarius... + Channel Update (Jan 6, 2025)To book an astrology reading with me please see:https://aquariandiary.com/readings/Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:Why it's been so hard for Sagittarius: 2008-2026 - Oct 15, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring PlutoOther episodes of mine featuring NeptuneOther episodes of mine featuring SaturnPluto on the Cusp of Aquarius - Late 2024 - Sep 17, 2024Astrological Influences Are Becoming Stronger - Nov 4, 2022Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityThe Narrowing Spiritual Path - August 12, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028North Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Can Other People's Energies Affect Us? - Aug 12, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024Energetic Hygiene - A "How To" with Practical Suggestions - Mar 21, 2023Objectification for Fun and Profit - Aug 10, 2024We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Infants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressPurging and Decompression—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Astrology #Sagittarius #SagErrata

In our recent episodes, we've explored what it means to lose home—from the immediate chaos of evacuation to the grief of loss, to the challenging work of supporting a community in crisis.  Today, we're examining the deeper psychological impact of disaster on communities. Dr. David Eisenman has spent more than two decades studying how disasters affect public health and community resilience. As director of UCLA's Center for Public Health and Disasters and a practicing physician, he brings both research insight and frontline experience to our conversation about healing after loss. We discuss how communities can support one another through trauma, what the long-term effects of displacement look like, and how we can build resilience in the face of increasing natural disasters. EPISODE SHOWNOTES: Read more. BE AFFIRMED. Get the Good Words email series. JOIN THE HOPEFULS. Get inside the group. WHAT'S YOUR CAUSE? Take our quiz. BE INSPIRED. Follow us on Instagram. DO GOOD. Give to The Salvation Army.

I briefly discuss the upcoming major planetary shifts and the status of my astrology readings. This episode was published on January 26, 2025 at 10:28am EDT.To book an astrology reading with me please see:https://aquariandiary.com/readings/Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:Why it's been so hard for Sagittarius: 2008-2026 - Oct 15, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring PlutoOther episodes of mine featuring NeptuneOther episodes of mine featuring SaturnPluto on the Cusp of Aquarius - Late 2024 - Sep 17, 2024Astrological Influences Are Becoming Stronger - Nov 4, 2022Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityThe Narrowing Spiritual Path - August 12, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028North Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Can Other People's Energies Affect Us? - Aug 12, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024Energetic Hygiene - A "How To" with Practical Suggestions - Mar 21, 2023Objectification for Fun and Profit - Aug 10, 2024We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Infants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressPurging and Decompression—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Astrology #Sagittarius #SagErrata

Life's challenges can leave deep scars, but they can also become a roadmap for profound transformation.In today's bonus episode, I join coach, therapist, and warrior-philosopher Paul Chek to share my journey of surviving child abuse, addiction, and a brush with a cult—on through to finding healing and purpose through learning and living timeless spiritual principles like honesty, loyalty, and love.We explore how chaotic childhood environments shape the nervous system, how predators recognize and target vulnerable people, and how trauma creates painful cycles that, thankfully, can be broken with intentional work.This episode is more than a personal story—it's an invitation to reflect on societal challenges like disempowered masculinity, the infectious nature of trauma, and how this makes us susceptible to manipulation by bad actors (like governments!).We also discuss how building micro-communities gives us models for relating like our healthier ancestors did, and how doing our own healing work can shift the collective trajectory.If you're seeking tools to come out of chaos and into clarity, this conversation offers inspiration and practical insights.

Friend of the podcast Zach Greer sat down to watch Joe Flacco and Drew Lock play professional football Sunday afternoon. He joined a number Indianapolis Colts fans in doing so. On this podcast, after a 45-33 loss to a bad New York Giants team, a bunch of Colts fans joined him to further describe what it is like to watch this team week after week, year after year. Soon enough, this episode turns into a therapy session that combines friends, deep analysis, choice words, emotional takes and laughter; all the things the podcast has tried to be in 2024.  Contact The Show Here!Email: 20czuver@gmail.com

*Trigger warning for this episode as we are discussing trauma. After today's episode, head on over to @therapybookspodcast to learn about the latest giveaway. If you are enjoying these episodes, please leave us a 5-star review. *Information shared on this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. This episode is for those in the helping professions. In this episode of What Your Therapist Is Reading, Jessica Fowler is speaking with Jessica Stone, Ph.D., RPT-S, and Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, two of the authors of the book, Trauma Impacts: Repercussions of Individual and Collective Trauma. The episode focuses on the multifaceted effects of trauma, both on individuals and communities, and how these impacts ripple through generations.   Highlights include: 10:04 Shares how the book is set up including the 3 sections which include the impacts of trauma, trauma impacts with specific populations, and future implications. 13:01 Exploring relationships within the systems and need for healing. 18:19 Generational Trauma. 20:15 When the helper is in crisis too. 21:01 Trauma and neurodiversity. 27:03 Who this book is for. About the authors: Jessica Stone, Ph.D., RPT-S, is a licensed psychologist working in a private practice setting. She has been a practitioner, professor, presenter, mentor, and author for more than 30 years. Dr. Stone's interest in therapeutic digital tools, specifically using virtual reality, tablets, and consoles and AI, has culminated in clinical mental health use and research for mental health, medical, and crisis settings. She is the co-creator of the Virtual Sandtray App for iPad (VSA) and the Virtual Sandtray for Virtual Reality (VSA-VR). Dr. Stone is the past Chief Psychology Officer for AscendantVR, is a member of various boards, and serves as an affiliate of the East Carolina University College of Education Neurocognition Science Laboratory. Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, is a renowned clinical supervisor, international speaker, and acclaimed play therapist. As the author of best-selling books like "Attachment Centered Play Therapy," she brings unparalleled expertise to the field. With a wealth of experience as a play therapist and professor, Clair has significantly impacted the lives of numerous children and families. Recognized for her contributions, she is a sought-after expert in media, frequently sharing insights on children and family issues at both local and national levels. Dr. Robert Jason Grant is the creator of AutPlay® Therapy. He is a therapist, supervisor, and consultant and utilizes several years of advanced training and his own lived neurodivergent experience to provide affirming services to children and their families. He is an international trainer and keynote presenter and multi-published author of several articles and books. He is currently serving on the board of directors for the Association for Play Therapy.

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! The weight of the world feels heavier than ever, especially for women of color navigating consulting and entrepreneurship. But what happens when betrayal doesn't come from outside forces, but from within your own circle or professional community? In this episode, we explore the complex emotions tied to cultural betrayal and collective trauma, and how they impact your ability to thrive in business. If you've been feeling disillusioned, frustrated, or even stuck, this conversation is exactly what you need to regain clarity, build resilience, and move forward boldly. Tune in and discover how to show up for yourself, your business, and your community—no matter what.***Subscribe and share this episode to inspire others to join this supportive and transformative conversation.***For more information, visit https://excelatconsulting.com/

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! What if the collective trauma we experience could be transformed into a tool for empowerment and change? This miniseries confronts the profound emotions and societal challenges that have intensified following recent U.S. election outcomes. Through heartfelt discussion and historical insights, we delve into the concept of collective trauma, emphasizing its generational impact on marginalized communities. We will walk through through the five stages of grief, illustrating how each phase manifests and the vital role they play in processing trauma. This episode is a call to action, urging brilliant, ambitious women, especially Black women, to harness their collective strength and forge the futures they deserve. ***Subscribe and share this episode to inspire others to join this supportive and transformative conversation.***For more information, visit https://excelatconsulting.com/

In this episode, Lindsay explores the concept of collective trauma, particularly in the wake of major world events like elections, natural disasters, and the pandemic. Lindsay also discusses the importance of completing stress response cycles, acknowledging and processing emotions, and shares practical tips and tools for self-care. Afterwhich, Lindsay shares her thoughts on the election, groups she cares about that informed her decision on who to vote for, and a message of hope and healing.  00:00 Introduction and Podcast Setup00:31 Understanding Collective Trauma01:30 Self-Care During Intense Times04:05 Completing the Stress Response Cycle05:13 Restoring Power and Connection08:51 Navigating Post-Event Emotions09:27 Personal Reflections and Political Views14:46 Conclusion and Message of HopeLindsay's current program offerings: Looking for a new career as a Certified Trauma-Informed Coach? It's time to Become a Trauma-Informed Coach. Learn more about Lindsay's life coach certification here. Are you already a Certified Coach looking to deepen your skillset by Becoming Trauma-Informed, with a spiritual twist? Click here to see if Lindsay's Advanced Intuitive Trauma Certification for Coaches is a fit for you. Our next round will be during 2025. Are you needing help healing from Religious Conditioning, or expanding in your Spirituality–safely? Click here. Are you Healing from Betrayal Trauma in your Marriage? Click here. Check out her website here: Website.Find me on Instagram : @lindsaypoelmancoaching---Your host, certified life coach Lindsay Poelman started her journey of intentional healing started when she learned that her husband had been lying to her about pornography use for a greater pa...

In this episode of Saint Louis In Tune, hosts Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston interview Mickey Bergman, an expert in high-stakes prisoner and hostage negotiations. Bergman, the CEO of Global Reach and former Chief Intergovernmental Mediator for the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, discusses the complexities of international diplomacy, emotional intelligence, and the personal toll of his work. He also shares stories from his book, co-authored with Ellis Henican, titled In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad. Bergman highlights the importance of urgency in negotiations and the psychological dimensions of dealing with nations like Israel, North Korea, and Russia. This episode delves into the emotional and strategic intricacies involved in freeing prisoners and hostages from some of the most difficult geopolitical situations. By interweaving personal stories with practical insights, Bergman illustrates how empathy and awareness can lead to successful outcomes even in dire circumstances.[00:00] Introduction to Hostage Negotiations[01:00] Welcome to Saint Louis In Tune[01:18] Meet Mickey Bergman[02:40] The Work of Global Reach[03:42] A Life-Changing Decision[07:17] The Art of Negotiation[09:27] Emotional Intelligence in Negotiations[15:50] Collective Trauma and International Relations[21:33] Concluding Thoughts and Upcoming EventTickets to Mickey BergmanIn the Shadows by Mickey Bergman | Hachette Book GroupGlobal ReachMickey Bergman at Global ReachSt. Louis Jewish Book Festival Events & Schedule | St. Louis JCC Links referenced in this episode:jccstl.comThis is Season 7! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com#hostagenegotiations #prisonerrelease #globalreach #highstakesnegotiation #mickeybergman #richardsoncenter #globalengagement #jccstl #bookfestival

Matthias Roberts is a queer  psychotherapist (in Washington State) and the author of both "Holy Runaways:Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion" and "Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms". He is one of my favorite friends I met in graduate school, a human deeply committed to connection and curiosity,  and someone who I deeply admire. With Matthias, I feel a sense of belonging and openness to understanding the world and holding space for that curiosity which is so threatening elsewhere. Rebecca W. Walston is an African American lawyer, who also holds a MA Counseling, an all around boss babe. Rebecca runs a Law Practice and serves as General Legal Counsel for The Impact Movement, Inc.  She is someone who fiercely advocates for others freedom and healing. She is a dear friend and colleague, who anyone would be lucky to spend a dinner with talking about almost anything.Trigger Warning: Proceed only if you are comfortable with potentially sensitive topics.This is not psychological advice, service, or prescriptive treatment for anxiety or depression. The content related to descriptions of depression, anxiety, or despair may be upsetting or triggering, but are clearly not exhaustive. If you should feel symptoms of depression and/or anxiety, please seek professional mental health services, or contact (in Kitsap County) Kitsap Mobile Crisis Team at  1-888-910-0416. The line is staffed by professionals who are trained to determine the level of crisis services needed. Depending on the need, this may include dispatching the KMHS Mobile Crisis Outreach Team for emergency assessment. Speaker 1 (00:18):Welcome to the Rise podcast, conversations on faith, race, justice, gender, and spirituality. Today we're continuing our conversation on election humanity and politics. I have two guests today. I'm very excited about it. Matthias Roberts, who's a queer psychotherapist in Washington State, and the author of both Holy Runaways and Beyond Shame. Actually, he's one of my favorite friends I met in graduate school. I don't know if he knows that he's a human, deeply committed to connection and curiosity and someone I deeply admire with Matthias. I've always felt this sense of belonging and openness to understanding the world and holding space for that actual curiosity, which has seems so threatening elsewhere. So I want to thank Matthias for joining me and taking time out of his morning. And Rebecca Wheeler Walstead holds an MA in counseling an all around boss babe. Rebecca runs a law practice and serves as general legal counsel for the Impact movement, and she is someone who fiercely advocates for others freedom and healing. She's a dear friend, obviously she's a colleague and she's someone that anybody would be lucky to spend a dinner with talking about almost anything. So thank you, Rebecca, for joining me today.(01:40):I can say that for myself in my own experience, my anxiety is heightened overall and feelings that I can keep at bay with regular normal coping mechanisms such as exercise. It takes to me a little bit more and I have to offer myself a lot more grace in the process. I encourage you no matter where you are, to engage these topics with grace towards your own self, towards your neighbor, towards your family, and towards whoever's in your proximity. We won't get things done overnight no matter who we are, and we will get them done if we become more aligned and care more for those in our proximity, that means our neighbor. So if you're feeling or experiencing anxiety around the election or family or other triggers, I want you to encourage you to seek out and find someone to speak with. Maybe you need a mental health professional, maybe you need a spiritual advisor. Maybe it's your coach and it's something related to business. Maybe you need to go see your doctor for aches and pains you've been having. I don't know what it might be for you, but don't hesitate to reach out and get the help you need. We're going to jump into the conversation and voices from across the country. We are all different and we're not meant to be the same. I hope you find pieces of you in each of their stories. Hey, Rebecca. Hey, Matthias. Thanks for being with me today.Speaker 2 (03:06):Daniel, thanks for havingSpeaker 1 (03:07):Us. I just thought we would talk about this really amazing subject of politics and humanness because we're so good at it in the United States. Yeah, right. Y'all thoughts on that? Even as I say that, just politics and being human, what comes to mind?Speaker 2 (03:34):For me, there's almost a dual process happening. I think about my first thought was, well, politics are, but then I also thought about how when we separate institutions out from people, especially in the way that corporations tend to separate out how they become anti-human so quickly, and not that politics is necessarily a corporation, but I think there's a form of it. There's something corporate about it. And so I think about that juxtaposition and maybe the dichotomy there between, yeah, it's human, but I think it's also anti-human in the ways that it has to, I think almost by definition, separate from maybe these places of deep feeling or nuance in order to collapse all of that experience into something that people can rally on.Speaker 3 (04:51):I think there's something dehumanizing about our current politics, but I think that that is about power. I think when politics becomes about the consolidation of power or the perpetuation of power or the hanging on to it sort of desperately, then it no longer is about the people that the institutions and the country was built to serve and protect. And so I think there are all these ideals in our politics that on paper and in theory sound amazing, but when people in their humanness or maybe in the worst of our humanness step away from other people and not just people as sort of this collective generalized, but the actual person in front of you, the actual person in front of you and the story that they have and the life that they live, and how decisions and theories and ideals will impact the actual person in front of you. And when politics becomes about collecting power and maintaining that power at all costs, then it's no longer about people. It's no longer about lives. It's no longer about stories, and all those things become expendable in the name of the consolidation and the maintenance of power. And I think that at its heart is a human question. It's a question of selfishness and self-serving and maybe even self idolatry.Speaker 1 (06:49):I think that I agree, Matthias, I've been thinking a lot about, because in my family it's been a lot of comments like, well, we shouldn't talk about politics because we're family. I'm like, wait a minute, wait just a minute. Because the very politic that is being said from one angle is hurting the humanity of this other particular family member. How do we make sense of that? How do we say politics isn't a very human, the impact is meant to impact humans. The power is meant to impact humans, so the political sphere has become so toxic to us.Speaker 3 (07:40):Yeah, I think that sentence, we shouldn't talk about politics because we're family. It says more about maybe our fragility as a culture in this moment and our inability to have hard conversations without feeling like the difficulty of them fractures, relationships and familial bonds in ways that cannot be repaired or restored in any way. And I think it is also a statement about the toxicity of our politics that we have allowed it to get to a place where it actually threatens those kinds of familial bonds in some sense, you want go back to, you remember that book that was big in the nineties? All I ever learned about life I learned in kindergarten, right? All I ever needed to know, it reminds me of that because raising kids, I would raise my kids to say, there isn't anything on this earth that should fracture your bond as siblings. I raised them to believe that. I insisted that they engage the world from this vantage point that come hell or high water do or die is you and your sister. That's it. And it doesn't matter what happens in this world, there should never be a scenario in which that isn't true. And we have arrived at this place where people honestly believe that your political affiliation somehow threatens that.(09:19):That's sad and sad feels like a word that's not heavy enough to articulate. There's something wrong, really wrong if that's where we are,Speaker 2 (09:35):I think it speaks perhaps to our inability to do conflict well, and I'm the first, I don't do this all with my family at all. I'm terrible at conflict with my family, at least in the arena of politics. But I think about, I wonder if some of the fracturing that we say, I don't think it's all of it by any means, but is that reality of, because we can't have these conversations in our immediate family, it's getting projected into the wider, I mean, it has to play out somewhat. It is going to, that's the nature of it. So because we can't do it locally, it is having to play out on this grand scale. Rebecca, as you said, sad. I think it's horrifying too.Speaker 1 (10:44):It's what?Speaker 2 (10:45):Horrifying.Speaker 1 (10:46):Yes. It's very dangerous to be honest.Speaker 2 (10:54):It's very, yeah, those bonds, we have the familial bonds. Those are protective in some ways when we remove that, we remove those protections.Speaker 1 (11:11):I think we've been practicing at a society, and I'm talking particularly about the United States at ways of removing those bonds in multiple spheres of the way we've thought about life, the way we think about another person, the way we judge each other, the way we vote in past elections. I mean, the civil rights movement is pushing against that notion that family means dehumanizing someone else. And so even this idea of, I'm not even sure if I can say it right, but just how we've constructed the idea of family and what do our shared values mean. In some sense, it's been constructed on this false notion that someone is worth more than another person. Now, when that person shows up as fully human, then I think we don't know what to do with it.Speaker 3 (12:11):Yeah. I think something you said, Mathias about we don't do conflict well, right? I think rarely is any issue, black and white. Rarely is any issue. So clear cut and so definitive that you can boldly stand on one side or the other and stay there in perpetuity without ever having to wrestle or grapple with some complexity, some nuance. And I think maybe part of what we don't do well is that right? Somehow we've gotten to this space where we have maybe an oversimplified if that, I'm not even sure that's a good word, perspective on a number of issues as if there isn't any complexity and there isn't any nuance and there isn't any reason to pause and wonder if context or timing would change the way we think about something, right? And nor do we think that somehow changing your mind is no longer acceptable.(13:20):I think about, I saw a number of interviews with Kamala Harris. People talk to her about, well, why'd you change your mind about this or that? Why'd you change your perspective about this or that? And then part of the conversation was about when did we get to this place where growing and learning and changing your mind is bad for someone who is in the profession of holding public office since when can you not get in public office, learn some things differently, meet some new people, understand the issue better, and go, you know what? I need to change the way I think about this, but we are there. All of a sudden it means you're not fit for office, at least as it has been applied to Kamala Harris in this particular and even before her. The notion of a flip flopper is again to say you can't somehow change your mind.Speaker 2 (14:21):So that makes me start to then think about some of the myths, and I mean that deeper theological myth in the sense of not that it is untrue, but more in the sense of how it permeates culture. That's when I say myth and we have this idea or many people have this idea of a God that doesn't change, a God who doesn't change his mind as the ideal of there is right there is wrong, and the ideal is no change. And we have examples and scriptures, at least I believe, of a God who does change his mind, who sees what happens and change is what he does. And I think those can be compatible with maybe some ideas that maybe God doesn't change, but we also have examples of God changing his mind. But I think that has permeated our world of something unchanging is better than someone who or something who does change. And I wonder what that impact has beenSpeaker 3 (15:38):That made me pause. I certainly come out of a faith background of hold to God's unchanging hand. I mean, I can come up off the top of my head with a dozen different examples of the notion of he does not shift, he does not change. And the kind of comfort or solidity that can be found in this notion that we're not subject to the whim of his mood in any given time, but what you said causes me to think about it and to think about what does it mean to say that we live in a world where there is a God who can be persuaded by something in the human context that will cause him to respond or react differently than perhaps his original mindset is. I'm going to walk away from this conversation pondering that for a while. I think,Speaker 2 (16:30):Yeah, there are stories of that in scripture.Speaker 3 (16:36):The one that comes to my mind is the story of, and I'm not going to get all the names correct, so whoever's listening, forgive me for that. But the story that comes to my mind is the prophet of old who is pleaded with God for more time on earth, for more space to be alive and walk the earth as a human being. And God granted his request. And again, now there's a bit of a paradigm shift for me. What does it mean to say that I live in a world where there's a God who can be persuaded? I think the other thing when you said about a God who changes his mind, what comes up for me is also a God who holds extremely well the nuance and the complexity of our humanness and all that that means. And so often I find it's sort of the pharmaceutical attitude that we can have that things are rigid and there's only one way to see it and one way to do it. And if you ever watch Jesus's engagement with the Pharisees, it's always actually the problem is more complex than that. Actually the question you're asking is more than that. And so what matters less is the rule. What matters more is the impact of that rule. And if we need to change the rule in order for the appropriate impact, then let's do that.Speaker 1 (18:08):It's kind of gets back to something I've been learning in consultation, talking about this idea. I think we're talking about very young spaces collectively for our society. If I was to put it in that frame, the idea of as a child, a very young kid, even into your teenagers, you need to know something solid. You need to know that's not changing. That's the rule. That's what I got to do. And it's the parent's responsibility to make meaning and metabolize nuance for you and help you process through that. But one of our first developmental things is to split. This is good, this is bad, this person is safe, this person. That's a developmental process. But in somewhere we got stuck,Speaker 3 (18:54):It brings to my mind, you've heard me reference raising kids. And so I raised my kids to say this idea that you have to be respectful and thoughtful in your choices. And I always told my kid that so long as you are respectful and thoughtful in your choices, your voices will always be heard and welcomed kind of in our home. And so my daughter approached me, she's making an argument about something that I absolutely did not agree with her final conclusion. I was like, there's no version of anybody's universe where you're doing that, right? And she says to me, but you said if I was thoughtful and I was respectful that I could assert my position and I have been respectful in my tone and I've been thoughtful in my position. And she was absolutely right. Both had been true, and I found myself having to say, okay, now I sort of backed myself into a corner.(19:58):She followed me into it and the conversation ended up being about, Hey, that's true. Those are the parameters, but you're older now and the things that you're making decisions about have more impact and they're more nuanced and complex than that. So we need to add a couple more things to your rubric, and it's a hard conversation to have, but it makes me think about that developmental piece that you're saying, Danielle, that when we're younger, there's certain sort of bright line rules and the older you get and the more complex life gets, the more you need to be able to actually blur those lines a little bit and fudge them a little bit and sometimes color outside of the lines because it is the right thing to do.Speaker 2 (20:48):I think that movement from that really kind of rigid split into Rebecca what you're talking about, it requires that grappling with grief and loss, it requires that sense of even if I followed the rules, I didn't get what I wanted. And that is we have options there. We can rage against it and go back into the split, you are bad. I'm good, or actually grapple with that. I did everything I was supposed to and it still didn't work out in that words, it doesn't feel good and grieve and feel the pain of that and actually work with those parts of ourselves. And there is so much that our nation has not grieved, not repented from, and we are in the consequences of that.Speaker 1 (21:53):I was just thinking that Mathias, it's like we're asking one another to make meaning, but we're at a very base level of meaning making. We're trying to first discern, discern what is reality, and a lot of times we don't share reality, but when you're a baby, the reality is your caregiver hopefully, or even the absence of you become accustomed to that. And so I think we've become accustomed to this sense of almost this indoctrination of a certain type of religion, which I would call white evangelical Christianity, where they're telling you, I can make sense of all of this from the perspective of race. I can do that for you. Whether they talk about it explicitly or not, they're like, I can tell you what's good and bad from this perspective, but then if you add in how do you make sense of all the Christians vote for Trump and 84% of African-Americans are going to vote for Kamala Harris. I grew up thinking, are those people not Christians? I didn't know as a kid, I was raised with my father. I didn't understand, didn't make sense to me, but I thought, how could so many people as a child, I actually had this thought, how could so many people not know Jesus, but go to church and how could all these people know Jesus and say they're going to heaven? It never made sense to me.Speaker 3 (23:19):I mean, what you're saying, Danielle, is probably why there is a very clear historical and present day distinction between white evangelism and the black church. That's why those two things exist in different spaces because even from the very beginning, white evangelicalism or what became white evangelicalism advocated for slavery, and Frederick Douglass learned how to read by reading the scripture at risk to his own life and to the white slave owner who taught him how to read. And once he learned to read and absorbed the scriptures for himself, his comment is there is no greater dichotomy than the Christianity of this world and the Christianity of scripture. And so your sense that it doesn't make any sense is as old as the first enslaved African who knew how to understand the God of the Bible for him or herself and started to say out loud, we got problems, Houston.Speaker 1 (24:39):Yeah, I remember that as a young child asking that question because it just never made sense to me. And obviously I understand now, but as a kid you grow up with a certain particular family, a Mexican mom, a white father. I didn't know how to make sense of that.Speaker 3 (25:04):I mean, you say, oh, even now I understand and I want to go. You do. I don't explain that to me. I mean, there's a certain sense in which I think we're all in many ways, and I say all the country as a whole church, the American church as a whole trying to make sense of what is that, what was that and what do we do now that the modern sort of white evangelical movement is essentially the Christianity of our entire generation. And so now that that's being called into question in a way that suggests that perhaps it is white and it's religious, but it might not in fact be the Christianity of the Bible. Now what do we do? And I've spent some time in recent years with you, Danielle, in some Native American spaces in the presence of theologians who reckoned with things of God from a Native American perspective.(26:09):And if nothing else, I have learned there's a whole bunch. I don't know about what it means to walk with the God of the Bible and that my native brothers and sisters know some things I don't know, and I am kind of mad about it. I'm kind of angry actually about what it is they know that was kept from me that I was taught to dismiss because the author of those ideas didn't look like the white Jesus whose picture was in my Bible or on the vacation Bible school curriculum or whatever. I'm sort of angry at the wisdom they hold for what it means to be a follower of what I think in many native spaces they would refer to as creator, and that was withheld from me. That would've changed the way, enhanced the way I understand this place of faith. And something that white evangel and evangelicalism expressly said was heresy was of the devil was to be ignored or dismissed or dismantled or buried.Speaker 1 (27:31):I mean, you have Tucker Carlson referring to Trump as daddy in a recent speech. So you then have this figure that can say, Hey, little kids, don't worry. Your worldview is okay. It's still right and let me make sense of it. I can make sense of it for you with X, Y, Z policies with racist rhetoric and banter. I can do anything I want. I can show up in Madison Square Garden and replicate this horrific political rally and I can do it and everybody will be okay with it, even if they're not okay, they're not going to stop me. So we still have a meaning maker out there. I mean, he is not making my meaning, but he's making meaning. For a lot of folks.Speaker 3 (28:29):It is even worse than that. There's a couple of documentaries that are out now. One's called Bad Faith, the other one's called God and Country, and in one of them, I think it was Bad Faith, and they're talking about the rise of Christian nationalism. For me, as a person of faith, one of my biggest questions has always been, there's nothing about this man's rhetoric that remotely reflects anything I ever learned in every Sunday school class and every vacation Bible school, in every Bible study and every church service I've ever been to. He is boldly antithetical to all of it.(29:06):And he says that out loud, right back to his comments about, no, I've never asked God for forgiveness because I've never done anything that warranted forgiveness that is antithetical to the heart of evangelical Christianity that asserts that the only way to God and to heaven in the afterlife is through the person of Jesus Christ. And so every person has to admit their own sin and then accept Christ as the atonement for that sin. And he bluntly says, I don't do that. Right. So my question has always been, I don't get it right. Two plus two is now four in your world. So how are 80% of evangelicals or higher voting for this man? And in that movie, bad faith, they talk about, they make reference to the tradition of Old Testament scripture of a king who is not a follower of God, who God sort of uses anyway towards the bent of his own will.(30:18):And there's probably a number of references in Old Testament scripture if I was an Old Testament theologian, some of the people who have invested in me, I could give you names and places and dates. I can't do that. But there is a tradition of that sort of space being held and the notion what's being taught in some of these churches on Sundays and on Wednesday night Bible study is that's who he is. That's who Trump is in a religious framework. And so he gets a pass and permission to be as outlandish and as provocative and as mean spirited and as dare I say, evil or bad as he wants to be. And there is no accountability for him in this life, or the next one, which I don't even know what to say to that, except it's the genius move to gaslight an entire generation of Christians that will probably take hold and be with us for far longer than Trump is on the political landscape.Speaker 2 (31:29):I am not fully convinced it's gaslighting. On one hand it is. They're saying one thing, doing another. It absolutely is by definition. And I think growing up in white evangelicalism, there is, at least for the men, I think an implicit belief, I don't even think it's explicit. It's becoming explicit that they get that past too. It functions on those passes, those senses of we don't have to hold up to accountability. And I think we see that in all the sexual abuse scandals. We see that in the narcissism of so many white evangelical pastors. There is this sense of, as long as we're in this system, there isn't accountability. And so you can say one thing and do another, and it doesn't matter. You have God's authority over you and therefore it's okay. And so I think there's something, I'm right there with you, it doesn't make any sense, but I think it's also quite consistent with the way that authority has been structured within thoseSpeaker 1 (33:14):Spaces that you said that I felt like, I don't know if you ever get your heartbeat right in your neck, but I had it right there. Oh, yeah. I think that feels true. Yeah, it's gaslighting, but also it's meant to be that way.Speaker 3 (33:39):Do you think that that's new math or is that at the inception? What do you attribute the origin of that? And I don't disagree with you, I'm just sitting here like, damn, okay, so where does that come from and how long has it been there?Speaker 2 (34:04):I don't know. I have guesses. I think, how do you enslave an entire people without something like that and then found literal denominations that are structured on these power and authority? It goes back to what you were saying at the beginning, Rebecca, it's about power and accountability supports power.Speaker 3 (34:50):Yeah. Have you read The Color of Compromise?Speaker 2 (34:59):There's a documentary by that same name, right? The filmSpeaker 3 (35:02):There might beSpeaker 2 (35:05):See the film. Yeah.Speaker 3 (35:07):So he makes a comment in the book. He is writing this chapter about sort of the origins of the country and the country is as the colonies are being formed before it is a country, the colonists are in this sort of public debate about slavery and Christianity. And at least in tissie's research, there's sort of this group of colonists who come to the United States or what will become the US for the sake of proselytizing, evangelizing who they term savage, native and then enslaved Africans. And they're having this public conversation about does the conversion of a native or an African to Christianity remove them from slavery, essentially? Can you theologically own someone who's a profess child of God?(36:32):And Tse says that the origin of that debate has to do with an old English law that said that you can't enslave someone who is of the faith. And I remember reading that and thinking to myself, there's something wrong with the logic that you think you have the right to own any human being regardless of their faith belief system or not. There's something wrong with the premise in general that you believe as another human being, you have the right to own or exercise dominion over another human soul. So those are the things that go across my mind as I listen to you talk and propose the notion that this issue has been there, this flaw in the thinking has been there from the beginning.Speaker 1 (37:40):I was just thinking, I am reading this book by Paola Ramos about defectors and how Latinos in the US have moved to the far right, and she makes a case that the faith of the Spaniards told them that in order to achieve superiority, they should basically make babies with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. And they went about and did that. And then I know we always think popular literature, the United States, oh, India has this caste system. That's what people say, but really Latin America has a really complex caste system too. And to which after they brought over, and Rebecca and I know Matthias, you guys know this, but after they brought over stole African human bodies, a majority of them came Latin America, what we know as Latin America, they didn't come here to the United States to the continental us. And so then you have this alliance then between, and I'll bring it back to politics between these mixed Spaniards with indigenous folks also in enslaving Africans.(38:56):So then you get to our political commentary and you're recruiting Latinos then to join the Evangelical white church movement. And they've often been demonized and excluded in spaces because of citizenship, which adds its own complexity where African-Americans, now they have citizenship right now on the current day, but then you have these Latinos that it can be born or they're brought over on daca. So then you have this complexity where not only is there this historical century hating of African-Americans and black folks in Latino culture, but you also have this sense of that to get ahead, you have to align with white folks to come against African-Americans. You have all of that in the mix, and also then you also have to deny yourself and the fact that you have African heritage and indigenous heritage, so it's this huge mind fuck, right? How do you make sense of that colonial jargon in the political landscape? And then how does a Latino think, how do they actually encounter the nuance of their humanity and all of that, but complexly set up by the Spanish who said, we're going to enslave this X people group. In the meantime, we'll just mix our mix with this certain race, but the white people will be more dominant. And so you see that all comes into the United States politic and who gets to be human and who gets not to be human.Speaker 3 (40:44):I mean, in some ways, Daniel, you're pointing out that, and I think this goes back to math's point of several minutes ago, none of this is new under the sun. All of this is just current day manifestations or reenactments of a racialized dynamic that's been in play since forever, since even before maybe even the American colonies, right? Because what happened in terms of the transatlantic slave trade in Latin America predates some of that.Speaker 2 (41:18):Yeah. I mean, I think about England colonizing a huge portion of the world under the name of their faith that requires quite a distancing from accountability in humanity. Then you get an extreme fringe of those folks starting their own colonies.Speaker 3 (41:47):I mean, it does make me think, and my Pentecostalism is about the show, but it does make me think that there's something about this whole dynamic that's starting to feel really ancient and very old patterns that have been in place, and to me suggests from a spiritual standpoint, an enemy that is organized and intentional, and I have begun to wonder less than a week out from the election, what's the game plan if the election doesn't go the way I hope it does? What happens if America decides to give into its lesser urges as it has done in the past, and choose a path that is contrary and antithetical to its ideals what we're going to do? I ask that not even from a practical standpoint as much as spiritually speaking, how am I going to breathe and how am I going to make meaning of what you do with a world where that's the reality? We were talking before we got on air about the rally in Times Square and we can rail against it all we want, but there was hundreds of thousands of people there saying, yeah, let's do that.Speaker 4 (43:40):That scares me. AndSpeaker 2 (43:52):It doesn't go away. Even if Harris wins, I think your question of what do we do if Trump wins? It's a sobering question. It's a terrifying question, but I think it's also a very similar question of even if she wins, what do we do? What do we do? These people don't magically disappear.Speaker 1 (44:30):We're going to have to do no matter what. I just feel like there has to be some sort of, like you said, Mathias, just processing of the grief of our past because it's chasing us. You can hear it in each of our stories. It is just chasing us what we've been a part of, what we've been asked to give up. And I think America, well, the United States, not America, but the United States is terrified of what it would mean if it had to face that kind of grief.Speaker 3 (45:23):I don't know about that, Danielle, because for there to be terror would mean that you have had some conscious admission that something is gravely wrong. And I'm not even sure if we're there yet. I think America as a whole has a whole lot of defense mechanisms and coping mechanisms in place, so they never even have to get that far. And I don't know what you call that, what comes before the terror, right? Because terror would mean some part of you has admitted something, and I just don't know if we're there. And that's just me meandering through a thought process. ButSpeaker 1 (46:19):Oh, that's scary too, right? I think you're probably right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we're going to bump up against our time. I know, Mathias, you have something coming up too, but any final thoughts? I don't expect us to solve anything or wrap it up, butSpeaker 2 (46:47):I'm just noting how I'm feeling and there's something both sobering and grounding about this conversation. I don't think we've covered really any kind of necessarily new territory, but to continue to speak these things, it's so brain, but it's also like, okay, we can ground ourselves in these things though. These things are true and it's terrible, but when we ground ourselves, we have ground just, and that feels different from some of the up in the air anxiety I was feeling before coming to this coverage, just the general anxiety of the election that is so pervasive. So that's a shift.Speaker 3 (47:53):I think I found myself looking back a lot in recent days back to the history of the story of African hyphen Americans in the United States, back to some fundamental things that I learned about my faith early on. And I have a sense of needing to return to those things as part of grounding that regardless of what happens in the next week or the next several months or even the next six months, we have been here before as a country, as a people, and we have survived it, and we will do so again. If I think about the black national anthem, God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, and I have found myself needing to return to those traditions and those truths, and I think I'll stay there for as long as my mind and my body and my emotions will allow me to as a way of breathing through the next several days. I mean, talk to me on November 6th. That might be in a very different place, or January 6th or January 20th, but for today, I find myself looking back, I have some curiosity for each of you. What are those traditions for you, in your own spaces, in your family, in your culture, in your people? What are the things that have grounded you in the past, and can they ground you again going forward?Speaker 2 (49:43):I'm sitting here finding myself wanting to come up with some beautiful answer. And the reality is I don't know that I have a beautiful answer. It's a difficult task.Speaker 1 (50:00):Yeah. I mean, no, we're wrapping up. I can't give you anything clever except I think what comes to mind is I often just tell myself just the next hour, the next day, sometimes I don't even think about tomorrow. I tell myself, don't rush too much. You don't know what's in tomorrow. Today's going to be okay. So I kind of coach myself up like stay in the moment.Speaker 3 (50:38):And in all fairness, Danielle, your people, if you will, are facing a very different kind of threat under a Trump presidency than mine are, and that is, I'm firmly of the belief if he's going to come for one of us, eventually he will come for all of us. But I'm also very aware that the most pressing existential threat is coming against people of Latinx descent people who very well may be American citizens, are facing the potential reality that won't matter. And so your sense of blackness gay through the next hour, I'm good. I have a lot of respect for what these days are requiring of you. Thank you.Speaker 1 (51:43):Thanks for hopping on here with me, guys.Speaker 2 (51:47):Thank you.   Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.

Trigger Warning: Proceed only if you are comfortable with potentially sensitive topics.This is not psychological advice, service, or prescriptive treatment for anxiety or depression. The content related to descriptions of depression, anxiety, or despair may be upsetting or triggering, but are clearly not exhaustive. If you should feel symptoms of depression and/or anxiety, please seek professional mental health services, or contact (in Kitsap County) Kitsap Mobile Crisis Team at  1-888-910-0416. The line is staffed by professionals who are trained to determine the level of crisis services needed. Depending on the need, this may include dispatching the KMHS Mobile Crisis Outreach Team for emergency assessment. Danielle  (00:26):Welcome to the Rise podcast, conversations on faith, race, justice, gender, and spirituality. This is a part two of our season five opener, which was review and recap of the past year, and also engaging some questions around humanity, the election, and how do we see our neighbor? We are going to be hearing from a couple of organizers who have been in my county, Kitsap County for more than a decade. You're going to hear some of their experiences, some of what they've gone through, as well as a few other folks who are giving their response to the questions we posed last week. I've been doing a lot of listening. This isn't an endorsement for any candidate. This isn't a psychological advice, and this isn't a prescription for how you should vote. Voting is a right. It's something we can participate in. It's a way to participate in our system.  A lot of folks are swinging wildly between two pendulums. There's the thought of my vote doesn't matter and I'm not going to vote, or I'm going to vote for X person as a protest vote. These are all of your rights. You have the right to do. So. I've been thinking a lot about change and what does change mean? How do we want to see change come about, and what does long-term change really look like? I can't speak from an electoral politics standpoint because I'm not an elected official and I don't plan to be anytime soon. I can speak as a person, a mother, a wife, a partner, a colleague, a friend, and a community member. And what I can say is people powered movements are what I have seen from the ground up, bring change in communities. This isn't unlike what happens in our bodies from a psychological experience in my own body. Change doesn't come from merely thinking about it. It comes from the ground up in my body. It comes from addressing the feelings, paying attention to my body, and becoming a more integrated person. I would challenge all of us to look around and what are the people powered movements for social change that we desire, and what are the ways our body is talking to us and how if we listen, will it inform us where we stand on many of these different issues?  This brings me to another sensitive topic. The topic of how we are feeling, how we are doing in the sociopolitical climate. We're living in these United States. I can say that for myself in my own experience, my anxiety is heightened overall and feelings that I can keep at bay with regular normal coping mechanisms such as exercise. It takes me a little bit more and I have to offer myself a lot more grace in the process. I encourage you no matter where you are, to engage these topics with grace towards your own self, towards your neighbor, towards your family, and towards whoever's in your proximity. We won't get things done overnight. That's not how change works. Change is a process. It is for us as individuals, and it is for us as a collective society. So hang in there. If you need help, get the help you need.  Maybe it's a mental health counselor, maybe it's a spiritual advisor. Maybe it's your pastor, maybe it's your friend. Maybe it's someone in your community that you look up to, like a mentor, or maybe you just need to sit down with your friends and have a good old fashioned dinner and drinks and put your phones away. Whatever the help you need is, it's important that you seek out that help and that support. The goal isn't to be perfect. It isn't to be fixed. The goal is to be in our process and getting what we need so each day we can show up for ourselves and those in our community. We're going to jump into the conversation and voices from across the country. We are all different and we're not meant to be the same. I hope you find pieces of you in each of their stories.  Speaker 2 (04:37):Hi, this is Raquel Jarek and I'm coming to you from Bloomington, Minnesota, which is a suburb in the Minneapolis area. I teach astronomy for work to college students in downtown Minneapolis and am an aerospace engineer and was raised in a very Christian home. And I'm still a practicing Christian in many ways, and I make space for people with different political views in all kinds of moments in my life. I do it at my work with students because I have a variety of people in my classes. I'm actually challenging them to vote and to even investigate the two major political candidates for president on what they view of science and space and how they would support NASA or space exploration. And I get to know my students pretty well in person, especially not as much with my online students, but I want to make space and have a comfortable room where people can share a little bit of how they feel, but also not be offensive to people with a variety of opinions in the room.  Speaker 2 (05:44):And then there's a variety of opinions in my family on my side of the family and my in-laws and which candidates they support and which parties they affiliate with. I want to be a person who is about supporting different opinions and being able to be loving and welcoming to anyone in any opinion. And sometimes that can be difficult when people have conflicting views in the room. I think you might need to keep the conversation more surface level and fun and in smaller conversations maybe you can dive into what they think more. But that can be really challenging to go deep with people who are very opposite opinions. At the same time, I like to have challenging conversations about politics and religion, and I think being open to those conversations whenever those topics come up is good. And then also just remember to be kind. And I think that's definitely easier to do in person than online or in a social media space, but that face-to-face contact does bring out more humanity and more kindness in people. So I hope that helps and that people can make more time and space to treat others kindly and hear opinions. Thanks.  Danielle (07:04):What were you going to say about the election?  Sarah  (07:08):Oh, I'm just feeling stressed about how close this election is. And it's just sort of extraordinary to me that given the many, many flaws in the Trump offering that people would still vote for him, that he's clearly mentally impaired and authoritarian, happy with dictators, mean-spirited and more of a mafia boss than a presidential candidate. And it's just extraordinary to me that, and I've always known people like that existed. It's just extraordinary to me that so many people would be planning to vote for him. So I am feeling a little stressed this morning,  Speaker 1 (07:55):Pam, I saw you nod your head.  Speaker 4 (07:58):Oh, I agree with everything that Sarah said. I have the same I deep, deep apprehensions and anxiety, and I think we're living in a landscape of anxiety just on the edge of a nation that at least half of it wants to go over that edge and pull the other half down with them. And it's really frightening. It's real. And I think I'm also frightened by people who are putting their heads in the sand. That's their response either out of just inconvenience or their terror response. So we're in a situation,  Speaker 1 (09:04):I agree. I feel that. I feel it come out in so many different ways. So for instance, as a licensed mental health therapist, something gets said like it was this last week where the former president is at a rally comments on anatomy. It gets blasted across the airwaves. And then what I notice that happens across my workspace is that people are triggered in their family relationships. They're triggered in with community. They're on heightened alert with a neighbor. I noticed this is last week we had two different really random requests. One was to adjust our fence because of the view. And if you know my yard, I live way out in the country, no one's looking. The second thing that happened to us was like, your car is parked at an odd angle sort of thing. So can we switch it around? I wasn't home. I got the message. And immediately when the message popped up, I felt so much anxiety and I was trying to talk myself off the ledge. I'm like, you can move this car, Danielle, when you go home, you can move this. This is fixable. You can come back from this. But the way I understand it is there's all my cup of navigating anxiety and uncertainties already up to here. So if my car's crooked somewhere, I'm freaking out.  Speaker 4 (10:44):I think that's happening all over the place. I mean, we saw an example yesterday afternoon with that involved pizza and chicken and people being much deeper issues and wounds being triggered by that, and we just have to take care of each other. I think we really, my priority is number one for the foreseeable future is public safety and how do we take care of each other when a lot of us can't call the people in the system that are supposed to give us support when they're not there, or they are part of what is creating problems and cruelty and insensitivity. So I mean, that's the only thing that's on my mind right now is public safety.  Speaker 1 (12:16):Sarah, thank you, Pam. Sarah, what comes to mind? We're kind of discussing the nature of political dialogue in our current climate. What do you see at stake if we do not vote?  Speaker 3 (12:31):Yeah, so that's what I've been thinking a lot about because I know there's a lot of people feeling that as a principled matter, they don't want to participate in voting, especially when the Biden administration has not been taking the ethical stand. We would like them to take on Gaza, for example. That's kind of a particularly heightened one, and it's really hard to feel like by voting somehow you're participating, you're condoning genocide. So I really get that and struggle with that myself. And here's where I come down is that I don't feel like any presidential candidate since I've started voting, which was a very long time ago, that any presidential candidate, except for when McGovern was voting, was running to get us out of Vietnam War, that there's been a presidential candidate that I was voting for with enthusiasm, we vote strategically. And that's one of the things the working family party is so good at.  Speaker 3 (13:35):They say we're voting strategically. We're voting to build power so that we as a movement can get things done. That doesn't mean the person who's running for president or any other office is our leader. We're not getting behind them as like, okay, all our loyalty is to this individual. We're voting strategically because this person in office is more likely to, number one, give us the space to build a social movement that can actually build power. And number two, to be swayed by the social movement to care when people show up and protest and people gone strike. And when people's movements do what they do so well, they care enough to then be willing to change policies. And so that's the way I feel about it. I don't feel like we have to believe that Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz are the people that we believe are the most, are everything we would hope for.  Speaker 3 (14:33):We just have to say, will this person allow social movements that care about poor people, that care about immigrants, they care about the environment, will they allow those social movements to progress? And we desperately need that progress. And on the other hand, if we end up with somebody like Trump, I mean, I think part of the appeal of Trump in the beginning, I mean when he ran the first time around, I think the appeal for a lot of people was they were just so angry at the system as it is that voting for Trump was throwing a bomb into the middle of government and seeing what landed because they didn't want to continue the status quo. And that felt more satisfying. Well, we kind of know what that looked like. We know who got hurt there. And we know also that this time around he has less to lose.  Speaker 3 (15:25):He doesn't have another term to run for, so he doesn't have to placate anybody. There is no group of people that he has to be concerned about except for the people who give him money and give him power. And so that's what the entire government will be oriented around is giving Donald Trump lots of flattery, lots of power and lots of money. And we know what that looks like in Russia because that's kind of what happened when the Berlin wall fell, is that they kind of sold off the whole government to a bunch of rich people, and it became just thoroughly corrupt. It's not like we don't have corruption now we do, but just wait until the whole government is privatized and Elon Musk owns this chunk and Peter tha owns this chunk, and it's like the rest of you, we don't care because we've got AI to do your job. Anyway,  Speaker 1 (16:24):Pam, thoughts or response?  Speaker 4 (16:28):Yeah, no, I think all of that is right on. We sort of can oscillate between the most local level, the national level, and global politics. So we're part of a very extraordinary zeitgeist of authoritarianism popping up in multiple countries. And I heard a podcast a week or so ago talking about authoritarianism in other countries, and they pointed out, and especially in Europe, that there very, very forceful, very strong, very loud, very visible, but they are not the majority in those countries. And I think because we see and hear more about authoritarianism on a daily basis and the ratcheting up of the horrible violent rhetoric that we can easily feel like we are the minority. And I don't know that we're a big majority. And I think that there's a lot of qualifications to what constitutes authoritarianism because it is not that it's not here already. When we talk about voting for democracy, this is about losing our democracy. Well, that's a very relative term. I mean, the country was not founded democratically, this country was taken. I think that's why we have such a hard time dealing with Palestine. If we have to acknowledge colonization and genocide and all of the injustices there, we might have to then look at our own situation and history. So I mean, again, it just travels back and forth between the different levels. And here in sbo, hobo is proud of its colonization and it's just terrified of losing a grip. So I think we are in an identity crisis. You can't imagine.  Speaker 3 (19:28):Yeah, I think that's right. And I think a lot of that identity, I think a lot of it is where racism really flowers is people are afraid that they lose their privilege and entitlement of being white, and then they're willing to listen to and be convinced by really horrible racist ideas. And I think part of that is also this crisis of a sense of belonging that people have been, the social institutions that used to keep us connected have withered away in so many different ways. And then during Covid, we were so isolated, and then people just got this, it's a psychological trauma of a kind to be that isolated. And so without a sense of belonging, instead of turning to one another and saying, let's figure out how we rebuild our community in ways that are real and authentic and empowering, people are turning against each other because that's sort of the reptilian brain taking over and saying fight or flight, and I'm going to fight these other, and that's going to give me a sense of belonging because then I'll be part of this little group that all is fighting against the other. So I do feel like it's an incredibly dangerous time. And I also feel like at a local level, there are solutions that are about building that sense of belonging that are within our reach.  Speaker 1 (21:12):Yeah, one thing I think from a psychological perspective is often we're like toddlers or babies. We do this process of, we do split a split, what's good, what's bad? And we're dependent on a caregiver to make meaning of the world for us so we can understand those splits and we can become hopefully an integrated adult that's able to manage the good and the bad feelings. And I think an more general term, which it's going to shortcut some understanding here, it's far more nuanced than what I'm saying, but we have a collective split. And in that collective split, for instance, when a toddler can't get their bad feelings out, if you've ever seen a toddler rage, they rage about a candy wrapper, they rage about, I can't get it. X. And what does that toddler need? Yes, they need the physical containment, the love and the care and support. They need boundaries.  Speaker 1 (22:20):Then they need a parent to talk to them, even if they can't understand it either through touch or interaction or play or verbally to make sense of why they had those big feelings to normalize the big feelings. So the toddler can say, oh, I'm not weird because I had these big feelings and here's where I can put them. Here's how I can process them. And in a sense, Trump I think has capitalized on the splitting of our collective conscious. And he said, you have bad feelings and let's put 'em over here. Let's find someone to blame. So this becomes, let's externalize our bad feelings about maybe what we're coming to realize. It gets centered around a critical race theory or it gets centered around Haitian immigrants. Let's put all of our bad feelings, the things we haven't been taught to metabolize as a society and let's throw 'em over here into these people.  Speaker 1 (23:19):And because there's a lot of folks that are listening to this rhetoric, it feels good not to have to deal with our own bad feelings about ourselves. I'm just going to be honest. When I feel shame about myself, I feel horrible. I do not like that. And sometimes I deal with it well, and sometimes I don't. But I depend on other figures in my life to bring that shame to them and say like, oh, what do I do about this? I feel bad. And how do I make amends? Or maybe I can't make amends. And if you can't make amends, you also have to deal with that. So I think these authoritarians capitalize on the psychological collective consciousness of a society that doesn't often know what to do with the bad feelings. Think about Germany, think about Israel, think about, I'm trying to think about what we've done in Mexico and South America with corporations, and now all of a sudden people migrating north.  Speaker 1 (24:24):Now they're bad. So what do we do with that construction of consciousness? And I agree, Sarah, really the only way to take a piece of that elephant is to start with your friend or your neighbor and to vote for people that seem to have more space for us to organize or to continue to make meaning with our neighbor that may be very aggressive and hostile to us. I mean, the mistake is on the other side, if I vote for this radical person, they're going to eliminate that bad neighbor somehow because they're not actually trying to convert the person they think is bad. They're trying to get rid of them, expel them permanently. And what I think I'm looking for is something, what SMA talks about, resum is where do we, and I think what you guys are saying is where's that space where we may know we don't like someone, but where there's actually space to figure it out. And with an authoritarian, there's never going to be that space. They're dependent on the hate.  Speaker 4 (25:32):That's right. Go ahead, Pam. And then people want to think that if Trump just doesn't get elected, we'll be okay. We will have dodged the literal bullet in many cases. But that's not true because like you're saying, Danielle, it's the divestment of our own intolerable parts. For whatever reason, they are intolerable to us onto the others, and our system is constructed such that we have to have others. Capitalism has to have others, we have to have racism. That's what makes it work so well for the people that it works well for. I think we need a national intervention, and I think that's what we're going toward in a dark sense.  Speaker 4 (26:49):But I would hope that we could start to get ourselves moving toward a national intervention and within a more positive framework. And how do we do that? How do we do that? You're talking about the hyper-local level and with neighbors and family. And at this point, I mean, some of our neighbors want to kill us, and that's not being hyperbolic. And we know that those sentiments are out there, but the sort of signs are being flashed everywhere to intimidate others rather than to put down those weapons, whatever form they take and sit down together to find some commonalities to just bring the temperature down. Right now, so many other people have been very alienated from numerous family members over these issues and can't not bring the issue of guns into this conversation because the weaponization of our society is a huge factor. I think it's a huge factor in why many politicians, political leaders don't step up more. I think it's why they don't confront the atrocities that are happening in front of us, whether it's in other countries or it's in our own backyard. I think the arming of America has really deformed our national character, and I think that's a large part of this identity crisis.  Speaker 3 (29:11):So yeah, I think what you said earlier about this being that the authoritarian, the group that really approves of that is a minority. And even when Trump won in 2016, he won by a minority of the popular vote. And we know the electoral college system is to blame there, but we are pretty clear that he doesn't have a majority and he still may win, but he doesn't have a majority. So I think it's really important to remember that there are the violent folks who are really in favor and really relish the idea of violence, but they are a relatively small minority way more than I would've hoped, but still. So then I think a lot of our challenge is how do we work with the people that are still in the middle? And I don't mean that they don't have opinions, it's that they are struggling with the nuances.  Speaker 3 (30:08):And I think there are a lot of those people, even though they're kind of hidden from the media, but they're struggling with the nuances, they're not sure who to vote for or whether to vote. And one of the things I keep seeing is Kamala Harris and other people asking for money, which I don't understand, they raise so much money already. And what I wish Kamala Harris would ask for is, I wish you would ask us for our vote, and I wish you would ask us to talk to somebody in our family or in our friendship circle who is struggling with knowing whether to vote or not or who to vote for and ask them for their vote. And I'm not talking about uncle, so-and-so who's clearly going to vote for Trump? What I'm talking about is the person who says, well, my vote doesn't matter. Or the person who says, I can't bring myself to vote for a candidate who hasn't stood up to what's going on in Gaza. And those are things that I sympathize with. I think there are people who have intelligence and real concern who are expressing those things. One of the things I just heard about is I don't, if you remember a while, a few elections back, there was a swap the vote thing going on where you could talk to somebody in a swing state  Speaker 3 (31:35):And say, Hey, I'll vote for a third party candidate, Jill Stein or Cornell West if you'll vote, given that you're in the swing state and your vote's going to really make a difference if you'll vote for Kamala Harris. So I'm getting ready to do that. I'm going to see if I can find one of my friends at Michigan who is struggling with that question around Gaza because I struggle with it too. And I think that Kamala Harris has shown she actually cares, even though we're not getting the kind of position we would like, I think she actually does care about human beings. I don't see any evidence of that from Trump. So I think we're better off if she wins in Gaza, we're better off with Gaza, and then we can continue our organizing work. So much of our work is really not about the elections.  Speaker 3 (32:27):It's about building the power of ordinary people through social movements. And that's what we need to be about. And that's also, I think the part besides the crisis of the other part of the crisis we're in is this crisis of inequality and hopelessness in a sense that no matter what I do, if I'm a young person, I may never be able to buy a house, or I may never be able to have children because I can't afford daycare. I mean, the death that people and people in the media, often the Democratic party often describe this as inflation and say, well, inflation is so much better, and therefore, why aren't you guys happy? It's like, well, I still can't afford a place to live. Why should I be happy? They're kind of not getting that. So the whole way our economy is functioning to pour huge amounts of money into the military industrial complex and into a whole new generation of nuclear weapons, and to allow the wealth to trickle up, not just trickle, but flow up to the top tiniest percentage and the rest of people to be struggling.  Speaker 3 (33:36):That whole way of organizing the economy I think is really important to remember how popular Bernie Sanders was when he was willing to call that out. And I think the Democratic Party was not having it. They kept him from actually winning the nomination, but he won enormous amounts of support. And some of those people were people that then turned around and voted for Trump. They wanted an outsider who was going to shake things up. I think we have to be ready to shake things up in terms of the economy in a way that's inclusive, that says we can have an economy that includes everyone, where everybody has an opportunity and not, we could have a better economy by deporting massive numbers of people. I think when you can have a political message, that's also an inclusive message and also a message of belonging, I think that's where we have an opportunity to actually combat this authoritarian bent.  Speaker 4 (34:36):I would add that we need more than messaging. We need action because the Democratic Party has been very good at messaging, inclusivity, the big tent, economic equity, healthcare. But then we look at what happens. And Sarah, you and I have been in this for decades, and we make just enough progress to keep the populace from exploding. I mean, one of the best educations, best parts of my political education was taking the training with cell deaf. Do you know them? Community Environmental Defense Fund? Yeah. Oh my God. So every election cycle, we hear the same songs. The Republicans say, well, we need to get the government out of our lives. We need to deregulate. We don't need these people. The government telling us what to do. We need to tell the government what to do. And then we hear the Democrats saying, yes, we need to make things equal and better for everybody, and we will be your guardians.  Speaker 4 (36:23):And over these decades, we have seen some progress, but really not enough. I mean, when you're talking about Bernie Sanders, I'm thinking about when I was a delegate in Philadelphia, a national delegate at the Democratic Convention. And the last night of the convention, which was when Hillary was being, oh, she'd already been nominated but finalized, and I was the whip for the Sanders delegates in the Washington state contingent. And they sent being the Democratic Committee, national Committee, they put a detail of seven plain clothes. I've got pictures and everything of this plain clothes, secret service, FBIA, and then the local law enforcement figures armed to encircle me. We had delegates from other Bernie delegates from other states who were also organized to express our democratic voices. But I think our faith in the system really needs a deep examination, and we need other parties. And the electoral college is its own thing, but this identity crisis has so many dimensions to it that the work that we have in front of us is very broad. And I'm not sure that the public in general understands that. I think they think it's about electing someone, putting them there, and then back to business as usual. And we can't go on like this. So in a way, even though it's so painful, it's so frightening, and it's so awful. I we're at a turning point, and that's a good thing. Unfortunately it doesn't feel very good,  Speaker 4 (39:04):But we have to do it right.  Speaker 3 (39:12):Danielle, I can jump in, but I was, I'm curious about what you think.  Speaker 1 (39:15):Well, I think it brings back to what I was asking you all about how do we see change happening in our society, both long-term and short term? And which leads me back to hearing Resum talk last year and then reading and listening to his books and some of his just Instagram reels and him talking about we got here over 400 years, and it really didn't start then either. It started with disgruntled folks over in Europe thinking the best way to do something about that was to go live in another place and then conquer that place. So it started centuries before this. And wait, how long have we been out of Jim Crow? Can anybody tell me how many years technically zero. I mean, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1950, what was it,  Speaker 3 (40:23):1967 I think, or 68. Okay.  Speaker 1 (40:28):I mean, just put that in context. You got four centuries and you got whatever drove those people to come here, grew up thinking these guys were the puritan citizens of the world that were looking for a new place. I really wasn't the case. So you got all of that, you honor, you immortalize Christopher Columbus who wrote prolifically and told stories prolifically about murder and rape and state sanctioned violence that set the tone. And this is a man we immortalized. So when I think about long-term, and I think about SMA talking about, he talks about each of us taking, when we begin to make a shift in our family, it being five generations out till that shift is maybe completed. So on some level, that makes me think we're all effed and on the other level, someone has to start it. We have to get going. And that's what I hear you all saying, like, okay, we have this huge dilemma. We are here, and I agree Sarah and Pam voting for the president. Again, you can get caught in that realm. If you vote for Trump, he's your savior. If you vote for Kamala, she's going to save us. Well, she's not going to save us.  Speaker 1 (42:05):Jill Stein can't save us, Cornell West, and I hope one of them are thinking they can, the alternatives to Trump. I fear maybe that narcissism is so deep that maybe there is some thought of that, but our people's movements, the things we do on our block and our street matter the most, and those have the potential to make long-term effects for my kids and short-term interventions, look at what happened in the school district here. I mean, they've gone back to using common threads and other things as a foundation because of what was set decades. Was that like two decades ago? Three decades? Two, yeah, two decades. But there is a sense that when you have someone severely corrupt and empowered and dictating tone, you literally can't get anywhere,  Speaker 3 (43:05):Right? Well, I think the time horizon question is really important. We do have hundreds of years of this history. We should remember that some of the people who came over came over because they were fleeing horrific conditions. I mean, you think about the Irish people who were trying to escape a famine, and you think about Jewish people trying to get away from pilgrims. I mean, it wasn't that everybody who came over to the US came over here because they thought they could kill a bunch of native people and therefore have a good life. I don't think that was the intent. What they did when they came over here varies tremendously. So I just think we want to keep the nuance in the story because part of the reason is because that's part of what we have to build on, is that today's refugees are not that different in many cases from the people who are escaping the Irish potato famine.  Speaker 3 (44:09):They're people who are suffering and looking for a way to survive and raise their families and work hard. And so we have that part of our story to build on too. So that's just one part. A second thing is that I think our social movements in the United States have gotten kind of swallowed up by the nonprofit industrial. We've thought we could get the changes we need and alleviate suffering by service providing within the current system. And part of the reason that that has been dominant within the nonprofit sector is because where the funding comes from, funding comes from very wealthy individuals and companies, not in all cases, but in a lot of cases want to or are willing to alleviate suffering, but they want to make sure the system stays intact, the system that continues to distribute wealth and power to a small sector of the population. Well, a social movement that is hobbled by having to stay within the existing mindset and the existing system can't be, can't take on the fundamental challenge of inequality and of extractive capitalism because it's too tied into it.  Speaker 3 (45:37):So social movements have got to become independent. And there are good examples out there. I've mentioned the working families party before. I'm not a member of it, but I'm a big admirer because they insist on independent power based on their membership. They will help a Democrat, for example, get elected, but then they'll hold that person accountable to their agenda and say, these are the things we will only endorse you if you do these, if you commit to these things, then they'll go out and work for 'em and help 'em get elected, and then they'll come back and say, did you do those things? And they'll check their record. So they're building a form of independent power. They're not the only one, but they're a good example of how, instead of just saying, okay, democratic Party will come out and we'll vote for your candidate. I mean voting, I think we should all vote. I think we should all vote. I think honestly, that we should vote to keep Trump out of power. And that means voting strategically, and that means voting for Harris.  Speaker 3 (46:34):But that doesn't have to be the focus of our work. The focus of our work should be on building independent power that then holds the candidates accountable to us and does a bunch more in terms of building power. But that's just one of the ways that we need to be building power, is by having the wherewithal to be able to hold candidates accountable to our agenda. I mean, one of the things I used to do when I was at Yes magazine is around election season, we would put together a people's agenda. And this was an agenda of what do ordinary people want? And we figured that out, not just by what we wanted, but what the polls were seeing. And we could find things like a majority of large majority of Americans wanted nationalized healthcare. There was a poll that actually asked them that, and it was way over 50%. Neither democratic nor Republican parties were willing to talk about that. And before Obamacare, when they were working under Clinton on healthcare reform, they excluded any of the single payer advocates from the room. They wouldn't even let them be in the conversation. So one thing after another or that people want reasonable gun control laws, they want reproductive freedoms. They want us to convert energy from fossil fuels to renewables. They wanted that for decades. I can tell you, I was doing this work 20 years ago and the polling numbers showed it. So we need to do more to say this is a people's agenda. This is a people's agenda locally who can represent us and carry this forward and statewide and nationally. This is what we, the people want,  Speaker 1 (48:23):Pam.  Speaker 4 (48:26):Yeah, and we need imagination. I think we're so conditioned to accept systems and there's structures that our default is just, oh, whatever that system says, this is how we do things. And Sarah's talking about movements that are outside largely of those systems, at least in terms of analyzing what works for us and what works against us. And of course, we can't be just isolated satellites. We exist within these systems. So it's the nuanced little travels back and forth. I think that will, well, we've seen it. I mean, take the school district. That was an enormous breakthrough. Huge. Huge. It works. Some of the tactics involved a lot of imagination.  Speaker 1 (49:56):Yeah, I was going to say that. I said, I think we have to realize and understand, I think you're naming this, that people are vastly ambivalent. And so both in the way we think, and I think the way our trauma has hit us as a society and personally, and so I think a lot of us want to engage new forms of organizing or being together as a community. And I think a lot of times at the same time, people aren't ready to do so. There's some comfort in doing it the old way. So I just think we're up against, we have to realize that we're in this complex social movement where we're both invited to understand and know where we came from. And like Sarah, you pointed out the nuance of how we got here. It's not just one story or the other story, but we're also comfortable, I think on both sides of the coin, whether you're liberal or conservative, there's a similarity and you're comfortable and holding that type binary.  Speaker 3 (51:06):You're comfortable, but you're also afraid, right? I mean, we get into the reptilian mindset because we feel so under attack, and then we go into our more simple way of thinking. And I think the other side that we need to be doing our best to work on is to soothe our own alarm and fear by supporting one another, but then by opening that up so that more and more people can have that sense of possibility and belonging and joy and celebration and all the things that can happen at a community level that start calming people's anxiety and giving them a sense of hope and giving them the sense that we as a community have possibilities and can exercise our imaginative power and can make things different because we actually can when we're together in a way that we really can't on our own.  Speaker 1 (52:07):Pam, now that we solve that problem,  Speaker 3 (52:17):Yay, let's go and vote.  Speaker 1 (52:24):I didn't. I mean, I think the temptation is to try to wrap it up, but we just can't, to be honest. This is a conversation that hopefully not just for a podcast, but hopefully it's ongoing with people in our actual proximity.  Speaker 4 (52:42):Well, for one thing, the election isn't going to be decided on November the fifth. I mean, this is probably going to be the longest election ever, at least in this country. So I think it's important to have our communities know that we are paying attention and we are present especially, I mean, did you see the day that, I think it was a couple days ago when Trump gave that rally and made all of those disgusting remarks about Arnold Palmer and so forth? The thing that I think really fueled him for that was that just before that rally, 49 of 67 county sheriffs in Pennsylvania met with him to endorse the Trump presidency. And so when we put that together with things like the pre-positioned fake electors and all of the mechanics that go into our electoral process, I think it's going to be a while. Until this is settled, the outcome is settled, and I think it's important for us to have a presence based in peace and non-violence and tolerance. And I think it's really going to test us.  Speaker 3 (54:52):I agree with you. I think it's going to be really tough in the swing states. I mean, luckily for Washington, I think we'll probably be less in the crosshairs, but I do agree it's going to be really tough. And four years ago, I was on the board of Free Speech tv. I'm still on the board, but I was doing a bunch of research for them to find local people in each of the swing states that they could interview to find out what was going on on the ground. Because I just felt like anybody who thinks that Trump is going to give way to peacefully to a victory on the other side is kidding themselves. He's made clear. He made clear then. But he really is made clear now, and I think because of January 6th, there's more awareness now that we really have to have some safeguards in place. I don't know that they're in place, but there's more awareness of that. So yeah, I think it's a really frightening prospect. And I agree with you, Pam, that being ready to hold each other up is going to be really important.  Speaker 5 (56:05):I feel like it's really hard not to villainize the people I come in contact with who vote the other way. The tension is really hard to hold. How do I take a strong stance for what I believe in without hating the people around me who disagree, especially if they hold contempt for me? And what I think a few months ago on a local neighborhood Facebook group, someone posted, she was asking a question of where she could get a yard sign for what's the non-majority party here? The post caught my eye and I debated whether I should check it out to see the 50 plus comments. But ultimately, my curiosity won and I scrolled through them to see insole after insole hurled at this woman, her gender, her intelligence, and even her spirituality all came under attack, all because she asked the question. Others told her she should have known better than to bring it up in the first place.  Speaker 5 (57:00):I have to confess, I thought the same thing. There have been moments I've considered putting a sign up in my own yard again for the party that is not the majority here, but when I consider the community challenges I've faced over the last few years, I shy away from doing it. I don't know if I could handle any more loss of community. I need people in my life. We all do. And there's not only the risk of losing potential neighborhood friends, there's also the risk of losing family. Last week as I pulled around to the back of my parents' home, the home where I grew up, I noticed a yard sign for the candidate I do not support, almost as if it was there just for me to see in a family that loves to talk about politics, as long as you agree, I am no longer invited, or do I desire to be a part of the conversations.  Speaker 5 (57:49):But the sign in the backyard, which couldn't be seen from the road was placed there only for family to see. It's a statement, a line in the sand. I tell my kids as they ask questions about the fact that me and their grandparents disagree that it's one of the greatest, most beautiful things about our country, that we get to have our own opinion on who we want to vote for, and that it's okay to disagree that we can love people who think differently than we do. I should probably also tell them at some point that sometimes that's really hard to do. It's hard for me to breathe and ground when the hair stands up on the back of my neck and I feel my fist clench when men at the kitchen and my office building laugh and told lies about the candidate I support knowing where I stand. It's hard to stay calm when my middle aged client throws out her party's buzzwords to test me, but I try to remember her humanity. I try to remember that her views are built by reporting that is insulated and circular, and that she's being told that she should be really afraid, and she is. And fear can make any of us want to fight. We're all only human.  Danielle (59:05):Thank you for listening to this episode of The Arise Podcast, conversations on Faith, race, justice, gender in the Church. I want to thank all of our contributors. They've done this as volunteers. I'm a volunteer. This has got started off all volunteer work and so appreciative of those who have joined our podcast. Please download, please subscribe, and please remember that we are part of the human race and to treat each other with kindness and respect.   Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.

I discuss why the period commencing in 2008 has been particularly astrologically challenging for Sagittarians. There has been some difficult astrology at play for Sagittarius which winds down beginning in 2025 through 2026. This episode was published on October 15, 2024 at 1:11pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN, AQUARIAN DIARY  via Irish Granny Tarot - Oct 13, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring PlutoOther episodes of mine featuring NeptuneOther episodes of mine featuring SaturnPluto on the Cusp of Aquarius - Late 2024 - Sep 17, 2024Astrological Influences Are Becoming Stronger - Nov 4, 2022Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityThe Narrowing Spiritual Path - August 12, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028North Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Can Other People's Energies Affect Us? - Aug 12, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024Energetic Hygiene - A "How To" with Practical Suggestions - Mar 21, 2023Objectification for Fun and Profit - Aug 10, 2024We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Infants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressPurging and Decompression—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Astrology #Sagittarius #SagErrata

Fleur, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, shares her journey into politics. She discusses the importance of being a voice for her country during times of war while reflecting on the collective trauma experienced by Israel during recent conflicts. Fleur highlights the need for others to stand with the Jewish people and support Israel, including understanding the civilizational clash happening in the world. The conversation also covers human rights, education in countering antisemitism, the impact of the conflict on the Israeli economy, the rise of antisemitism globally, and the increase of people making Aliyah (immigrating to Israel) due to safety concerns.- https://www.instagram.com/fleurhassann- https://twitter.com/fleurhassannYouTube Version: www.youtube.com/RadicalLifestyle- Radical Lifestyle Instagram Click Here- X: Click Here- TikTok: Click Here- Telegram channel and discussion: Click HereYou can also follow Andrew and Daphne on their social media platforms:Andrew Kirk: Facebook | InstagramDaphne Kirk: Facebook | InstagramTo support the channel: Click Here- UK only Donations here: Click Here

I discuss the shift of energies related to Pluto transiting the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius and some related energetic impressions I recently experienced.I also briefly discuss the upcoming shift of the Lunar Nodes from Aries and Libra into Pisces and Virgo, and the potent eclipse activity that follow the Nodes. This episode was published on Sept 17, 2024 at 3:00pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Other episodes of mine featuring PlutoAstrological Influences Are Becoming Stronger - Nov 4, 2022Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityThe Narrowing Spiritual Path - August 12, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028North Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckCan Other People's Energies Affect Us? - Aug 12, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024Energetic Hygiene - A "How To" with Practical Suggestions - Mar 21, 2023Objectification for Fun and Profit - Aug 10, 2024We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Infants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressPurging and Decompression—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Astrology #PlutoInCapricorn #PlutoInAquariusErrata

I discuss whether we can be affected by other people's energies or not and, if so, how this may manifest and how to manage such influences. This episode was published on Aug 12, 2024 at 7:31am EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:Energetic Hygiene - A "How To" with Practical Suggestions - Mar 21, 2023Astrological Influences Are Becoming Stronger - Nov 4, 2022Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Objectification for Fun and Profit - Aug 10, 2024Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityInfants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Spirituality #Psychic #PsychicPhenomenonErrata

I discuss why serious Spiritual Seekers often find that their options for pursuing their goals involves a narrowing of options or being very focused in terms of their life, relationships and experiences.  This episode was published on Aug 12, 2024 at 3:26pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:Can Other People's Energies Affect Us? - Aug 12, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024Energetic Hygiene - A "How To" with Practical Suggestions - Mar 21, 2023Astrological Influences Are Becoming Stronger - Nov 4, 2022Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Objectification for Fun and Profit - Aug 10, 2024Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityInfants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Spirituality #Enlightenment #SpiritualSeekerErrata

I discuss how we commonly objectify other people in daily life, and even in practices commonly employed by the "Spiritual Community", and why this is undesirable and deserves deeper consideration.  This episode was published on Aug 10, 2024 at 12:26pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:The 1971 Powell Memo - Fuelled by Racism - Aug 6, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityInfants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Spirituality #Psychic #SpiritualEthicsErrata

The Powell Memo - Fuelled by RacismI discuss how new evidence demonstrates that the infamous 1971 Powell Memo, written by Lewis F. Powell, who would later become a US Supreme Court justice, was influenced by racism. I originally discussed the Powell Memo on September 23, 2021 in an episode titled:The 1971 Powell Memo and Why it Matters Now This episode was published on Aug 6, 2024 at 2pm EDT (I mistakenly stated Aug 7 in the recording... Mercury retrograde!).SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes and articles:The 1971 Powell Memo and Why it Matters Now - Sep 23, 2021The Powell Memo (AKA the Powell Manifesto) There's a New Lewis Powell Memo, and It's Wildly Racist - Aug 6, 2024The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way - Aug 4, 2024Uranus square Pluto and Far-Right Extremism: 1930's and 2010's - Jun 15, 2023The Astrology of Mass Delusion: 2011-2026 - Jun 21, 2023Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityInfants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Spirituality #Astrology #PowellMemoErrata

How can research help us change the stories we tell about ourselves, our mental health, and our shared trauma?…Spozhmay Oriya is a PhD candidate in the Educational Psychology program with focus on collective trauma, faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She has BA in psychology and MA in Education. She was assistant professor at faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Kabul University in Afghanistan since 2007 until 2021. Most of her teaching and research is in psychology. She is learning trauma and collective trauma integration and group facilitation with Pocket Project and Academy of Inner Science based in Germany since 2019. Her research interests are collective trauma, war, and trauma-informed education. She has conducted research with national and international researchers and has some publication in international journals.Today, Spozhmay describes her journey into being an educator and researcher. Spozhmay explains one of her early research projects studying the mental health of female students at Kabul University. Abbie and Spozhmay talk about the practical benefits of conducting research for helping us better address issues in our social worlds. Spozhmay discusses collective trauma in the context of ongoing war, poverty,and violence in Afghanistan. Abbie and Spozhmay discuss a researchers job to make meaning from research. Finally, Spozhmay shares about her efforts to provide support to her students following the November 2020 Kabul University attack.  ...Stories Lived. Stories Told. is created, produced & hosted by Abbie VanMeter.Stories Lived. Stories Told. is an initiative of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution....Music for Stories Lived. Stories Told. is created by Rik Spann.Find Rik on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Listen to our conversation with Rik in ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ep. 8⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠....Visit the Stories Lived. Stories Told. website.Follow Stories Lived. Stories Told. on Instagram.Subscribe to Stories Lived. Stories Told. on YouTube.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Explore all things Stories Lived. Stories Told. here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Subscribe to CMM Institute on Substack.Connect with the CMM Institute on LinkedIn and Facebook.Access all CosmoActivities for FREE!Participate in the CosmoParents Survey.Visit the CMM Institute website.Learn more about Cosmopolis 2045.

I discuss why dictators and tyrants exist.  This episode was published on Aug 3, 2024 at 7:13pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes:We Must Resist Corporate Control of the Internet - July 31, 2024AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityInfants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Spirituality #Politics #SocietyErrata

I discuss why corporate control of the Internet threatens society and humanity. This is a very serious topic that hardly anyone talks about and is another manifestation of "the commodification of everything".I also briefly discuss how this relates to the transits of Pluto through Capricorn and Aquarius. This episode was published on July 31, 2024 at 6:50pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes:AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityInfants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#AgeOfAquarius #Internet #PlutoInAquariusErrata

On this episode of The Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast, hosts, Jamie Belz, FNTP, MHC, and Mike Belz, CEO of the Nutritional Therapy Association discuss types, current stats, symptoms of chronic stress, and solutions for creating stress resilience for better mental health which tends to make way for better physical health. Join them as they touch on mental and physical stressors common in today's world, such as inflation and financial uncertainty/hardship, kids, busy schedules, societal pressures, work, daily tasks, relationships, divorce, isolation, socialization, screens, social media, politics, news, violence, prescription drugs, recreational drugs, environmental inputs, toxins, mold, weight management, health issues, loved ones who are suffering from mental or physical illnesses. Learn about the biological response to stress, and how to practice healthful stress management practices, as well as what to eat and what to avoid. 6:53 The resounding impact of the COVID pandemic from "Stress in America 2023: A Nation Recovering from Collective Trauma" 8:21 The abundance of stressors 11:31 The body's stress response - fight or flight - overstimulation of stress response 12:32 Working with an NTP to optimize digestion to help minimize stress and improve mental health/reducing stress to optimize digestion 13:35 Hitting the stress wall and the key to beating the stress epidemic - mindfulness and a healthier lens - avoiding "breathing life into" your stress 15:17 Work hard, play hard -> work hard, work harder 16:04 Physical symptoms of stress - aches and pains, insomnia, chest pain, heart damage, esophageal spasms, heartburn/acid reflux/GERD, digestive dysfunction, weakening of the intestinal lining, intestinal permeability/leaky gut, decreased immune function/increased susceptibility to pathogens and disease, exhaustion, increased cortisol, increased abdominal fat, weight gain, weight loss 17:42 Nervous breakdown 19:49 Mindfulness, meditation, relaxation - the role of the nervous system (enteric, autonomic, parasympathetic, sympathetic) - rest and digest - fight or flight - cortisol and adrenaline - the impact of the stress response on hunger cues, digestion, gut motility 23:27 Stress eaters, emotional eating, over-eating 27:13 Maldigestion/poor digestion, the impact of stress on HCl production and the digestive process - heartburn, GERD, leaky gut/intestinal permeability Digestive Hell Podcast Episode 30:32 Gut brain connection 30:55 Reinforcing and empowering stressful states versus resilience -  daily habits 32:06 Mike's tips for reducing stress/growing stress resilience - mantra mindset 35:10 Things that will force you to stay in a stressed-out state - relationships - toxic people - who you're spending time with - Dr. Henry Cloud's book, "Necessary Endings" https://www.drcloud.com/books/necessary-endings 36:20 Jamie's tips for reducing stress - things you can do 38:12 Reduce stress nutritionally with foods, herbals, and supplements - the endocannabinoid system - 39:52 Working with an NTP to address stress 40:18 Things to avoid  41:39 The importance of healthy boundaries ______________________ Record an introduction https://www.speakpipe.com/msg/s/342744/3/1fyqu83iaf707ggt   Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast Episode 011: Digestive Hell https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nutritional-therapy-and-wellness-podcast/id1733339864?i=1000652219979   Dr. Henry Cloud's book, "Necessary Endings" https://www.drcloud.com/books/necessary-endings   You can also connect with us online at www.NutritionalTherapy.com/podcast. Please hit subscribe!

Today's episode is an episode from almost two years ago where I talk about collective trauma and growth mindset. As I listened back to this episode recently, I was quick to realize the collective trauma we were experiencing two years ago as we clawed our way out of Covid still hasn't been healed. From where I'm sitting, people are still suffering in tremendous ways and as we approach what many consider to be the most disappointing and disheartening election season of our lives, the sense of instability and insecurity across the US cannot be overstated.   Given the state of the US and the world, I thought it would be helpful and supportive to revisit this episode so we can continue to move forward and see potential in our day-to-day lives, in spite of all the things we cannot control.   An article on collective trauma in Psychology Today states that collective trauma “can change the entire fabric of a community… In fact, collective trauma can impact relationships, alter policies and governmental processes, alter the way the society functions, and even change its social norms.”  Once we acknowledge that we are experiencing this and have been for years now, we can see how our mindsets have shifted to match this arduous cultural moment in history. In fact, it stands to reason that we have quite possibly (and very understandably) shifted our default mindset to a fixed mindset framework, instead of a growth mindset framework. Best-selling author, Carol Dweck, provides fantastic guidance around this terminology and topic. In this Greatest Hits episode, we explore why you might be defaulting to fixed mindset, how it's limiting you, and how to shift out of it to see more opportunities, potential & possibilities in your life - instead of defaulting to seeing obstacles & roadblocks. This isn't to say the obstacles aren't real. Things are hard. But let's uncover how to hold space for two truths: Things are hard.  You are resourceful and resilient and can make great things happen in your life.  Links mentioned: Attend my Influence & Ignite Retreat for Women Business Owners: shamelessmom.com/retreat Psychology Today article: What is Collective Trauma? Book: Mindset by Carol Dweck We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I discuss the ethics and pitfalls of clickbait which is rampant on social media platforms these days, including within the divination community. This episode was published on July 12, 2024 at 5:42pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Please follow me on Substack.Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related or recent episodes:Spirituality and Politics - Are they incompatible? - July 12, 2024Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionPluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Ascension #Spirituality #SocialCommentaryErrata

I discuss whether being politically aware or engaged is spiritual or not, and why. This episode was published on July 12, 2024 at 10:19pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Please follow me on Substack.Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes:Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionPluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Ascension #Spirituality #PoliticsErrata

I discuss my concept of "Natural" versus "Transactional" reality, what they are, how they differ, and what their implications are for us as individuals, society and humanity. This episode was published on July 11, 2024 at 1:24pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Please follow me on Substack.Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes:The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionPluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#Ascension #Spirituality #AgeOfAquariusErrata

We are doing it. Diving into meaningful, collective trauma healing when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this episode, I wanted to talk about the journey of collective trauma healing, and how we can all contribute to it. Whether you are Jewish or Palestinian, or someone who cares about the future consciousness of our planet - I urge you to listen to this episode! I explain the conflict from a nervous system perspective, share insights about my time as a dialogue facilitator of 10 years, and so much more. I can't wait to hear your insights from this episode! Please share them on instagram and be sure to tag me - I want to hear from you.  Resource: The Power of the Heart https://www.gaia.com/video/power-heart ❥❥❥ HeartSpace: An online monthly membership community for open hearted, nervous system attuned living. https://marinayt.com/heartspace/  ❥❥❥ Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/marina.y.t

This week, we go deep into trauma with Thomas Hübl, who developed the Collective Trauma Integration Process for working with individual, ancestral, and collective trauma. With the help of Thomas, hear our hosts unpack why, and how, we have to keep working on the solutions even as we are still experiencing the trauma of the climate crisis. Thomas Hübl, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change by integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science.   NOTES AND RESOURCES   GUEST Thomas Hübl, Teacher, Author, and International Facilitator Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube | attuned   Please fill out our 2024 Listener Feedback Survey! Vote for Outrage + Optimism in the British Podcast Awards Listeners' Choice Category!   Learn more about the Paris Agreement.   It's official, we're a TED Audio Collective Podcast - Proof! Check out more podcasts from The TED Audio Collective   Please follow us on social media! Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

Get the full show notes: https://jumpstartyourjoy.com/2024/06/exploring-trauma-and-joy-with-author-jen-soriano Follow/subscribe to JSYJ (free) on your favorite app: https://plnk.to/JumpStartYourJoy In this episode of Jumpstart Your Joy, Paula interviews Jen Soriano, a Filipinx writer and movement builder, about her experiences with trauma and healing. They discuss Jen's book 'Nervous Essays on Heritage and Healing,' the effects of trauma, and the importance of addressing collective pain. The conversation delves into the difference between trauma-informed and trauma-wise approaches, the impact of the pandemic on mental health, and the pressing issues within local communities, such as the banning of pride flags in schools.  Jen also shares her personal journey through grief and chronic pain and offers practical advice and insights into the fundamentals of healing and finding joy. Find Jen Soriano's website: https://www.jensoriano.net/ Jen Soriano on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jensorianowrites Buy the book: https://amzn.to/4cfAkrw Love the show, and want to show your support? Buy me a cup of coffee, and I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. Subscribe to my YouTube channel 00:00 Welcome to Season Eight! 01:03 Introducing Jen Soriano 01:38 Diving into Trauma and Healing 04:16 Jen's Childhood Joys 06:21 The Birth of a Book 10:17 Understanding Trauma 15:23 Chronic Pain and Trauma 22:54 The Fluidity of Our Nervous Systems 25:09 Rewiring Neural Circuits for Joy 27:25 The Pandemic's Collective Trauma 29:44 Addressing Global and Local Issues 32:28 School Board Controversies and Trauma 42:15 Healing Trauma and Finding Joy 46:21 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Parijat Deshpande is the founder and CEO of Ruvelle, the only trauma-informed wellness company specifically dedicated to improving high-risk pregnancy outcomes, reducing preterm birth, and supporting parents on the entire high-risk pregnancy journey. On a mission to end the high-risk pregnancy crisis, she has served and supported thousands of clients through her live events, one-on-one work, her bestselling book, Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy, and the Body Language Journal. I am thrilled to welcome Parijat back to the show as a second-time guest. I have watched her work evolve over the years since she was last on the show and I had a sense that now is just the right time to have her come back - this time to talk about traumatic stress and collective trauma.   Listen in to hear Parijat share: Her path to working in women's health and serving women who are enduring health trauma The significance of trauma-informed medical care and where we are currently going wrong without it What it's like for people with medical trauma to navigate the world without people understanding their experience How the pandemic created a situation of global collective trauma that we are still very much living in What needs to happen for us to heal from collective trauma When we don't have collective safety, how we can find support at any given moment by addressing our own physiological needs  How we have shifted from living in collective trauma to living in a collective functional freeze What trauma-sensitive medical care actually looks like Links mentioned: Connect with Parijat and Ruvelle: www.ruvelle.com Parijat and Ruvelle on IG We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is it essential for you to do your own trauma work while also understanding the impact of collective trauma?   In this episode, I am joined by Thomas Hübl, a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Together, we will discuss how each person can create attuned and co-regulated relationships that are necessary for being trauma informed.   We talk more on:  Attachment's role in our emotional responses as adults The impact of intergenerational and ancestral trauma on attachment  Strategies to stay regulated and connected in relationships Moving from distancing behaviors to being fully present in relationships The role of flow, stagnation and embodied practices in attachments And more!   For more information and links for this episode, please visit our website: https://biologyoftrauma.com/biology-of-trauma-podcast/  

Tune in for a special rebroadcast of our 2021 conversation with Edgar Villanueva, a globally-recognized activist, award-winning author, and an expert on issues of race and philanthropy, as well as the Principle and Founder of the Decolonizing Wealth Project (DWP) and Liberated Capital.For full show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/edgar-villanueva